Let's not forget that everyone has rights

RA Minister of Justice Srbuhi Galyan wrote: "Violence is condemnable. Illegal use of personal data is unacceptable. Any publication, including comments, that violate human rights and contain calls for violence is not allowed. Dear citizens, each of these actions is punishable according to RA legislation. Unfortunately, our society is not free from crimes, and that is the reason why today about 2,845 people accused of crimes of the greatest public danger are in penitentiary institutions, and hundreds of people are being held in non-custodial measures. Let's not forget that everyone has rights, including those accused of crimes. Let's be moderate in our expressions and behavior. Violence in any form is condemnable, but I want to talk about the phenomenon we are dealing with today. This video continues to be actively shared on the Internet, targeting all the children who appear in it, both the perpetrator and the child being abused. Their parents are also targeted. Our state is a state of law, so the reaction to all criminal phenomena must be done in a legal way. And the legal way is to discover the case of the crime, identify the persons who committed the crime, punish them and resocialize them. I must mention that this case, which is about two months old, was in the center of attention of state authorities and that is also the reason that the most severe measure of restraint was applied to children, which is detention, the use of which according to our legislation and international standards, is only carried out in very exceptional cases. I should add that there are now other means of deterrence applied to all minors.