Chief of Nubarashen jail dismissed

PanARMENIAN.Net - By Armenian Justice Minister, Gevorg Danielyan's decree, chief of Nubarashen jail Arsen Afrikyan was relieved from the post. The decision to dismiss the colony chief was based on the reports submitted by the Chief of Criminal Correctional Service of RA Ministry of Justice Ashot Giziryan and Chief of Nubarashen penal institution Arsen Afrikyan. 



By another ministerial decree, chief of security penal department of RA Ministry of Justice Varuzhan Eghiazaryan assumed the post, press office of the Ministry of Justice reported. 

 

November 27 at 6:00 p.m. two life prisoners Soghomon Kocharyan and Mher Yenokyan escaped from the Yerevan-based Nubarashen jail.  Mher Yenokyan, 43 and Soghomon Kocharyan, 43, were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, and they crash out of the prison for the second time. The first time they escaped from in December 2004 from Goris penal institution, but a few weeks later had been detained and transferred to Nubarashen. A criminal case was initiated.
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