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19.05.2022
RA Penitentiary New Code to Replenish Complete Package of Criminal Justice Chain Reforms
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In 2021, the parliament adopted the Criminal and the Criminal Procedure Codes, which will enter into force from July 1, 2022. The third important draft is the RA Penitentiary Code, which will replenish the complete package of the criminal justice chain reforms.

On May 19, the at the RA NA extraordinary sitting the draft RA Penitentiary Code was debated. The Code in force was adopted in 2004, after which numerous changes took place in the society, in the international practice and in the assumed obligations and in the legal concepts. Thus, a necessity emerged to have a new Penitentiary Code, by the existing contradictions will be overcome, providing innovative approaches.

As the RA Deputy Minister of Justice Arpine Sargsyan has presented, the new Code is built on a logic that the individualized work should be done with every convict. The innovation is that after entering the penitentiary an individual plan of serving sentence will be made for every convict in the quarantine division, and in fact, it will be reviewed with six-month regularity. In this aspect predictability will be applied, and targeted measures will be taken. The three zones – low, average and high – will replace the kinds of correctional institutions, taking into consideration the convicts’ risk and need assessment. Mild and strict regime serving sentence will also be established.

In response to the questions of the deputies Sergey Bagratyan, Lilit Stepanyan, Heriknaz Tigranyan, Zaruhi Batoyan, the Deputy Minister of Justice gave clarifications on the convicts’ medical aid and service, the regulations of the services aimed at preserving the convicts’ health.

Informing that there is no minor convict, Arpine Sargsyan has noted that special rehabilitation conditions for the minors’ serving sentence by the draft new code. It is distinctly designed that special attitude should be shown towards the minors, taking into consideration the age peculiarities and the social-psychological problems.

In his co-report the Chair of the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs Vladimir Vardanyan informed that the convicts are provided with quality food in the penitentiaries. Highlighting the strategic and conceptual amendments presented by the new Code, he noted that certain working discussions are designed with the participation of the concerned representatives of the sphere. And during the period from the first to the second reading necessary amendments will be made for having more modern penitentiary system. Vladimir Vardanyan called on his colleagues to endorse the draft.


19.05.2022
Taguhi Tovmasyan Meets with Acting UN Resident Coordinator and Senior Advisor for the South Caucasus Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
On May 19, the Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs Taguhi Tovmasyan met with the Acting UN Resident Coordinator Lila Pieters Yahia and the Senior Advisor for the South Caucasus Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Vladimir Shkolnikov....

19.05.2022
Armen Gevorgyan Gives a Speech During the Debate of PACE For Healthy Environment of the Activity Programme of Parliamentarians’ Network
On May 19, the Member of the RA NA delegation to PACE Armen Gevorgyan gave a speech during the debate of PACE Activity Programme of Parliamentarians’ Network for Healthy Environment“Dear colleagues,The issue of the interconnectedness between environment and human rights is becoming one of the most r...

19.05.2022
Cooperation with Freedom House is Important for Armenia: Sargis Khandanyan
The cooperation with Freedom House is very important for Armenia. In recent years the growing role of the organization is noticeable in Armenia and in the region: the deputy of the RA NA Civil Contract Faction Sargis Khandanyan said during the meeting with Marc Behrendt, the Director for Europe and ...

19.05.2022
Parliament Ends Work of Extraordinary Sitting
According to the addenda to the Law on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic (Psychoactive) Substances and the RA Criminal Code, criminal responsibility will also be designed in case of illegal circulation of the derivatives of narcotic drugs and psychotropic (psychoactive) substances, consumption, theft,...

19.05.2022
NA President of Armenia Receives Parliamentary Delegation of Italy
On May 19, the RA NA President Alen Simonyan received the Delegation led by Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of Italy, the Head of the Section of Italy-Armenia Relations functioning within the framework of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Giulio Centemero. At the meeting the further ...

19.05.2022
Grounds for Initiating Proceedings on Confiscation of Property of Illegal Origin, Period of Examination and Possibilities of Confiscation of Property Reviewed
The Government proposes amendments to the Law on Confiscation of Property of Illegal Origin aimed at detecting the property of illegal origin and returning it to the field of legality. The issue was debated in the first reading at the regular sitting of the National Assembly convened on May 19 on th...

19.05.2022
Alen Simonyan Receives Delegation Led by Jiří Růžička
On May 19, the RA NA President Alen Simonyan received the delegation of the Standing Senate Commission on Media led by the First Vice President of the Senate of the Czech Republic Jiří Růžička.The RA NA President highlighted the fact that the Czech colleagues are concerned about the m...

19.05.2022
Extraordinary Sitting of National Assembly to Be Convened
Pursuant to Article 100 of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia and Article 41 of the constitutional law of the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly, on the initiative of the Government, according to the NA President’s decision, the extraordinary sitting of the National Assembly will b...



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