December 21 Armenia’s permanent representative in the Council of Europe Christian Ter-Stepanian signed the additional protocol to the CoE Convention on Transfer of Sentenced Persons. The protocol provides for principal mechanisms of transfer of sentenced persons from the state that passed the verdict to the native state as well as service of sentence in the homeland.
The Convention has been valid in Armenia since 2001 and its purpose is to contribute to social integration of convicted via serving the sentence in the homeland. It allows avoiding grave consequences of imprisonment in a foreign state (difficulties with the language, meetings with family members, etc.), reports the RA MFA press office.
