18/12/2018
Acting Minister Artak Zeynalyan, accompanied by Deputy Minister Suren Krmoyan and Head of the Penitentiary Service Artyom Mkhoyan, toured the Institution and the special-purpose unit of the Penitentiary Service, visited the administrative unit and got acquainted with the working conditions of the officers.

17/12/2018
The following are the activities carried out by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia in May-November 2018:

14/12/2018
The visit was paid within the scope of the project “Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Instrument” of the European Commission.

14/12/2018
During the tour, the Acting Minister gave instructions to resolve the issues of the “Yerevan-Kentron” Penitentiary Institution and improve the confinement conditions.

14/12/2018
"Today we are going to discuss a very important and current issue. The relevant analysis of the activities of the committees of guardianship and curatorship authorities in Armenia and the gaps in those activities will be presented. We are all well aware that this sphere requires serious regulations. Thus, our efforts should be aimed at eliminating the obstacles, as well as closely co-operating with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs — the body developing policies in this sphere," Deputy Minister Krmoyan said.

14/12/2018
Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Suren Krmoyan attached importance to the fact that the author of the article, being in a closed penitentiary institution continues to write, create and study.

13/12/2018
Deputy Minister of Justice Vigen Kocharyan expressed gratitude to the Council of Europe Office in Armenia and underlined that the CoE has always supported the activities aimed at preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in Armenia. According to V. Kocharyan, brilliant evidence is the implementation of the project "Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence in Armenia" launched by the Council of Europe in April 2018; the aim of the project was to build the capacities of the main stakeholder institutions participating in the prevention of domestic violence.

13/12/2018
In the future, it is envisaged to distribute them among relevant penitentiary institutions.

12/12/2018
Artak Zeynalyan touched upon the ongoing judicial-legal reforms and emphasised that the legal system is being improved through the development of new concept papers, institutions and regulations and the introduction of principally new approaches.

11/12/2018
Co-founder of the Network in Armenia Gayane Hovakimyan, Head of the Department for Drafting Anti-Corruption and Penitentiary Policies of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Karen Hakobyan, representative of the Ministry of Justice of Brandenburg of the Federal Republic of Germany Fischer Horst and others also participated in the discussion.

06/12/2018
During the conversation with the senators, the Acting Minister touched upon the results of the visit to Italy in November, the agreements reached and the perspectives for deepening co-operation, especially in the fight against transnational corruption.

06/12/2018
We would like to inform that as a result of co-operation between the Ministry of Justice and the International Committee of the Red Cross, all penitentiary institutions of the Ministry of Justice each have been provided with one technical device necessary for making a video call. Moreover, there are two of them at "Armavir" Penitentiary Institution.