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DRUG ADDICTION PREVALENT IN ARMENIA PRISONS: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST
epress.am
06.02.2011 17:07
In Armenia's penal institutions, prisoners, if not 100% then 99%, are
deprived of drugs, said Arsen Babayan, head of the public relations
office at the justice ministry's penal institutions department,
at a press conference in Yerevan today.
According to him, there is large fight against drugs. On the topic
of inhaling gasoline as a drug, Babayan said, "The problem is not
purely inside the prisons as much as it is outside."
Also present at the press conference was Artur Sakunts, head of the
Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor office and head of the civic
group monitoring Armenia's prison, who said that despite the fight
against drugs, there is a real prevalence of drug addiction in prisons.
"A narcotics division [just] opened In the Hospital for Detainees -
this means the problem exists per se," said Sakunts, who noted that
prisoners are also swapping syringes.
From: Baghdasarian
epress.am
06.02.2011 17:07
In Armenia's penal institutions, prisoners, if not 100% then 99%, are
deprived of drugs, said Arsen Babayan, head of the public relations
office at the justice ministry's penal institutions department,
at a press conference in Yerevan today.
According to him, there is large fight against drugs. On the topic
of inhaling gasoline as a drug, Babayan said, "The problem is not
purely inside the prisons as much as it is outside."
Also present at the press conference was Artur Sakunts, head of the
Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor office and head of the civic
group monitoring Armenia's prison, who said that despite the fight
against drugs, there is a real prevalence of drug addiction in prisons.
"A narcotics division [just] opened In the Hospital for Detainees -
this means the problem exists per se," said Sakunts, who noted that
prisoners are also swapping syringes.
From: Baghdasarian