CHIEF OF NUBARASHEN JAIL DISMISSED
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
04.12.2009 15:47 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ By Armenian Justice Minister, Gevorg Danielyan’s
decree, chief of Nubarashen jail Arsen Afrikyan was relieved from
the post. The decision to dismiss the colony chief was based on the
reports submitted by the Chief of Criminal Correctional Service of
RA Ministry of Justice Ashot Giziryan and Chief of Nubarashen penal
institution Arsen Afrikyan.
By another ministerial decree, chief of security penal department
of RA Ministry of Justice Varuzhan Eghiazaryan assumed the post,
press office of the Ministry of Justice reported.
November 27 at 6:00 p.m. two life prisoners Soghomon Kocharyan and
Mher Yenokyan escaped from the Yerevan-based Nubarashen jail. Mher
Yenokyan, 43 and Soghomon Kocharyan, 43, were sentenced to life
imprisonment for murder, and they crash out of the prison for the
second time. The first time they escaped from in December 2004 from
Goris penal institution, but a few weeks later had been detained and
transferred to Nubarashen. A criminal case was initiated.