ArmInfo. The Armenian parliament refused to include in the big agenda initiated by the opposition faction "Elk" ("Exit") a legislative initiative permitting deputies to visit arrested and detained persons.
Presenting the draft amendments to the law "On the content of arrested and detained persons" the head of the faction Nikol Pashinyan stressed that at present meetings with deputies are limited, if such a decision was taken by the investigator, which is fundamentally wrong. "We do not come on a date, but just check the condition of the prisoner." Let's say the alarm signal comes in.
My wife calls and says that my husband is being beaten, pulled out his nails, starved, we have to check whether it's true or not? I have not been allowed in the criminal-executive institution "Armavir" myself, not even in the cells, but in the building, "Pashinyan said.