Armenia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · There are 31 capital offenses
- News items in the archive
- 130
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Armenia is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 130 news items on Armenia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- DECEMBER 11, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
During the session of the Monitoring Commission of...
During the session of the Monitoring Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Irena Belogorska, rapporteur on Armenia, expressed concern over the fact that some political forces in Armenia object to the abolition of capita
- NOVEMBER 9, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The deputy chairman of the Armenian National Assembly...
The deputy chairman of the Armenian National Assembly described his recent visit to London as "extremely packed and useful"
- OCTOBER 19, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Rapporteurs of the monitoring commission of the Parliamentary...
Rapporteurs of the monitoring commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] met the National Assembly delegation for the Council of Europe, the National Assembly standing commissions and parliamentary factions and groups
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe must allow Armenia an exception...
The Council of Europe must allow Armenia an exception in the issue of capital punishment, the leader of the faction of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Aghvan Vardanyan, said
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The decision to admit Armenia to the Council of Europe...
The decision to admit Armenia to the Council of Europe was right, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] Lord Russell-Johnston told the Armenian parliament
- JULY 8, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan told a visiting...
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan told a visiting Council of Europe official in Yerevan that Armenia would not carry out death sentences
- APRIL 25, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Armenia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- MARCH 28, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy speaker Tigran Torosyan said the Armenian parliament...
Deputy speaker Tigran Torosyan said the Armenian parliament needs to make changes in the special part of the Criminal Code concerning the abrogation of the death penalty as part of its responsibilities towards the Council of Europe
- FEBRUARY 23, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The former Prime Minister of Armenia, Aram Sargsian...
The former Prime Minister of Armenia, Aram Sargsian said that the five perpetrators of the act of terrorism in the Armenian parliament, on February 27, 1999, in which his brother Vazgen Sargsian was killed, would be sentenced to death
- FEBRUARY 14, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenian Kurds protested in Yerevan demanding the resolution...
Armenian Kurds protested in Yerevan demanding the resolution of the Kurdish Cause and the liberation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, sentenced to death in Turkey
- JANUARY 25, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenia was officially admitted to the Council of Europe
Armenia was officially admitted to the Council of Europe
- JANUARY 1, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
There are 31 capital offenses
There are 31 capital offenses
- JANUARY 1, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
There are 31 capital offenses
There are 31 capital offenses
- NOVEMBER 27, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
On November 27, 2000: the UN Committee against Torture...
On November 27, 2000: the UN Committee against Torture considered reports submitted by Armenia and commended the country's current moratorium on capital punishment and the absence of capital punishment in Armenia's draft Penal Code
- NOVEMBER 21, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Several hundreds of Armenian Kurds held a rally to...
Several hundreds of Armenian Kurds held a rally to express their support of the PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan when the European Court for Human Rights Protection began to hear Ocalan's appeal against his death sentence
- NOVEMBER 21, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Gagik Arutyunyan, chairman of the Armenian Constitutional...
Gagik Arutyunyan, chairman of the Armenian Constitutional Court, addressing a seminar held at the Constitutional Court on the subject of the Armenian constitution's conformity to the regulations of the European convention to protect human rights and basic
- JULY 28, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Gang members Armen Ter Sahakian and his cousin Alik...
Gang members Armen Ter Sahakian and his cousin Alik Grigorian were sentenced to capital punishment with complete confiscation of property
- JULY 17, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation...
The head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner in Yerevan met lawmakers to discuss alternative military service, the abolition of capital punishment and the freedom of conscienc
- JULY 17, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy parliament speaker Gagik Aslanyan speaking at...
Deputy parliament speaker Gagik Aslanyan speaking at a meeting with the head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said that people and authorities in Armenia are unanimous in their understanding of the need to bring democrati
- JULY 3, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The chairman of Armenia's National Assembly, Armen...
The chairman of Armenia's National Assembly, Armen Khachatryan said that by joining the Council of Europe Armenia had committed itself to human rights and would thus do its utmost to abolish capital punishment in the country
- JUNE 28, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Assembly of the CE voted in favour...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the CE voted in favour of the admission of Armenia to the Council
- MAY 18, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Ruben Torosyan, the chairman of the Social Democratic...
Ruben Torosyan, the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Armenia Human Rights, said that the relevant structures of the CE were postponing the discussion of Armenian membership
- MAY 5, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Mikhail Shpindeleger, rapporteur of the Commission...
Mikhail Shpindeleger, rapporteur of the Commission for Human Rights and Legal Issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CE), speaking on the issue of Armenia's membership, said that the Commission was delighted, surprised and pleased
- APRIL 26, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenia cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty...
Armenia cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 3, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Vano Siradegyan, 54, former Armenian interior minister...
Vano Siradegyan, 54, former Armenian interior minister and Republican Member of Parliament, was placed under arrest by a Court of First Instance in Yerevan
- MARCH 4, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Razmik Azarian, chairman of the Chamber of Appeals...
Razmik Azarian, chairman of the Chamber of Appeals on criminal and military cases, on the question of the abolition of the death penalty said that in his opinion this issue should be solved by a national referendum
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenian justice minister David Arutyunyan expressed...
Armenian justice minister David Arutyunyan expressed support for the demand by the CE to repeal the death penalty as capital punishment in Armenia
- FEBRUARY 15, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Kurds living in Yerevan organized a mass procession...
Kurds living in Yerevan organized a mass procession through Yerevan's streets to mark the first anniversary of the arrest of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan
- FEBRUARY 9, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Ovanes Ovanesyan, the Chairman of the Parliamentary...
Ovanes Ovanesyan, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Foreign Relations, speaking in favour of the abolition of the death penalty in Armenia, said that in his opinion the issue should be decided by a national referendum
- JANUARY 25, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Viktor Dallakian, the chairman of the State Legal Commission...
Viktor Dallakian, the chairman of the State Legal Commission of Armenia's National Assembly, said there were 32 prisoners condemned to death