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HRAPARAK: PRISON HOSPITAL TURNED INTO SUPERMARKET
11:30 10.08.13
The newspaper received a letter from prisoners treated at the prison
hospital.
They complain about the situation, particularly about extortion.
"People are treated for money. We have to pay 30,000 (about $80)
drams a month for staying in hospital. The hospital has been turned
into a supermarket. Some rich prisoners have stayed for three or four
months, paying $2,000 a month," the letter reads.
As far back as last year, Armenia's Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan
ordered an investigation. The powers of Head of the Prison Hospital
Aram Khachatryan were suspended, and Armenia's National Security
Service reportedly questioned him.
Gor Glechyan, Spokesman of the Department for Penitentiaries, rules
out such practice. "That's impossible. Nothing like that has so
far happened."
"No healthy man stays in hospital. That's impossible," he added.
He claims that "it's a way prisoners are solving their problems."
Armenian News - Tert.am
11:30 10.08.13
The newspaper received a letter from prisoners treated at the prison
hospital.
They complain about the situation, particularly about extortion.
"People are treated for money. We have to pay 30,000 (about $80)
drams a month for staying in hospital. The hospital has been turned
into a supermarket. Some rich prisoners have stayed for three or four
months, paying $2,000 a month," the letter reads.
As far back as last year, Armenia's Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan
ordered an investigation. The powers of Head of the Prison Hospital
Aram Khachatryan were suspended, and Armenia's National Security
Service reportedly questioned him.
Gor Glechyan, Spokesman of the Department for Penitentiaries, rules
out such practice. "That's impossible. Nothing like that has so
far happened."
"No healthy man stays in hospital. That's impossible," he added.
He claims that "it's a way prisoners are solving their problems."
Armenian News - Tert.am