Nagorno-Karabakh: Conscientious objector jailed for 30 months

Even before his trial, he had been transferred to the prison in the hilltop town of Shusha where he will serve his sentence, Forum 18 News Service has learned. The entity's latest prisoner of conscience, who refused military service because of his religio

Jehovah's Witness Karen Harutyunyan was sentenced on 30 December 2011 to 30 months' imprisonment for refusing compulsory call-up to military service in Nagorno-Karabakh, an internationally unrecognised entity in the south Caucasus. Even before his trial, ...