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330 convicts, including 13 foreigners, released under amnesty

Panorama, Armenia
Nov 7 2018

A total of 330 convicts have been released from correctional facilities across Armenia under the recently adopted amnesty law as of Wednesday afternoon, the Penitentiary Service of Armenia’s Justice Ministry told Panorama.am.

Of them, 13 are foreign citizens, the service said, adding the majority of the freed inmates are from Sevan Penitentiary. 

The amnesty law signed by the Armenian president on 3 November entered into force on November 6.

The new measure marks the 100th anniversary of the First Republic of Armenia and the 2,800th anniversary of the capital, Yerevan.

1. Nubarashen Penitentiary – 16
2. Artik Penitentiary – 28
3. Vanadzor Penitentiary – 2
4. Vardashen Penitentiary – 44
5. Goris Penitentiary – 7
6. Hrazdan Penitentiary – 24
7. Abovyan Penitentiary – 20
8. Sevan Penitentiary – 99
9. Kosh Penitentiary – 43
10. Armavir Penitentiary – 34
11. Hospital for Convicts Penitentiary – 13 

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS