November, 2016

• 29 November

  

  Assault Suspect Stabbed While Partying After Badly Beating Wife

  Gevorg Sargsyan is among the three defendants in a trial which concerns the 2014 beating of Nagorno-Karabakh war veteran Vardan Tumanyan, who died in hospital the following day. Several months ago, the assault suspect ...
• 29 November

  

  Ex-Soldier Jailed for False Terror Reports Pardoned by Armenian President

  Davit Hakobyan, a 27-year-old former contract serviceman who had been sentenced to a year and six months in prison for reporting false bomb threats to police, has been pardoned by Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan,..
• 28 November

  

  Assault Suspect Who Beat Wife in Broad Daylight Taken to Hospital (Updated)

  “He has committed another crime while out on own recognizance, thus violating the conditions of the release,” Tigran Muradyan, a lawyer for the deceased's wife, told Epress.am on Monday....
• 28 November

  

  Armenian Soldier in Critical Condition After Being Shot in Head

  Aznavur Baleyan, a military conscript serving in a Nagorno-Karabakh unit, is in critical but stable condition after being shot in the head on November 22 during an argument with a fellow serviceman, News.am reports,..
• 28 November

  

  Broken Cell Window in Yerevan Prison Replaced Only After Ombudsman’s Intervention

  Ararat Khandoyan is the brother of Nagorno-Karabakh war veteran Arayik Khandoyan, one of the three dozen members of the “Sasna Tsrer” anti-government group that seized a Yerevan police station in July to demand Armenian...
• 28 November

  

  Yerevan Woman Bleeds to Death after Being Stabbed by Intimate Partner

  Aram Mnatsakanyan, a 34-year-old native of the town of Artashat, during an argument sparked by jealousy, Shamshyan.com wrote today. “Before the argument at their apartment, [the couple] had gotten drunk at some club [...] ...
• 27 November

  

  Armenia Failed to Protect Conscript’s Right to Life, ECHR Rules

  The investigating authority, while having eyewitness evidence suggesting that there had been no obvious acts of physical abuse in respect of Suren Muradyan during the argument of 21 July 2002,...
• 27 November

  

  Woman Cruelly Beaten on Yerevan Street by Husband

  A young woman was violently beaten in broad daylight by her husband on Yerevan’s Teryan street on Saturday as a crowd of people just stood by and did nothing “because it’s his wife,” Zara Hovhannisyan, the coordinator of ...
• 26 November

  

  Soldier Subjected to Violent Beating by Commander Soon Died from Sarcoma Complications

  When the soldier went home on leave a few months later, Ghazaryan continued, he was limping and there was a severe wound on his leg; “It was so deep and the pain was so intense that I had to take him to the hospital...
• 25 November

  

  ‘Okay When She’s Asking for It;’ March in Yerevan Against Domestic Violence

  The marchers passed by a number of Yerevan's universities, handing out the information booklets primarily to students. As a response, female students generally said they had never heard of domestic violence and...