Yerevan Transgender Woman Recounts Brutal Beating
- I ran to the door, managed to open it and ran out of the apartment. E. caught up with me; he grabbed me from behind and we rolled down the stairs. He was ...
Yerevan Transgender Woman Out of Intensive Care
- Her condition has been changing for the better. She is no longer in intensive care, and we will soon probably find out when she’ll be discharged. She was questioned...
Condition of Yerevan Transgender Women ‘Critical but Stable’ After Brutal Attack
- Her condition is currently critical but stable; she is still in the intensive care unit. We do not know for sure whether she is getting better or worse, but doctors estimate her...
Transgender Woman in Intensive Care After Brutal Beating
A transgender woman was left hospitalised after being brutally beaten up in her Yerevan apartment on Tuesday night, Lilit Martirosyan, the head of the Yerevan-based Right Side NGO that...
Chamber of Advocates Chairman Criticized for Incompetent and Homophobic Remarks
They might, for example, want to create a Union of Manure Eaters, go out into the street, go to schools and try to campaign for manure eating....
Sexual Assault Survivors Doubly Victimized by Police: Report
In some cases, investigators display victim-blaming attitudes against the adult victims; during questioning, they give assessments and make assumptions about their behavior, which may lead...
The End of Progressive Neoliberalism
Until recently, however, the chief response to the crisis was social protest—dramatic and lively, to be sure, but largely ephemeral. Political systems, by contrast, seemed...
Adoption of Domestic Violence Law in Armenia Opposed by Pro-Russian Groups: Report
Thus, we can confidently claim that the groups spreading misinformation about the RA Bill on “Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence” and presenting it as a bill “imposed by Europe and America against morality” are...
Transgender People Face Highest Rates of Social Discrimination in Armenia, Activist Believes
It is widely believed in Armenia's society that transgender individuals mainly engage in prostitution, which Martirosyan does not deny, stressing that it's only a consequence of the public's hatred towards...
LGBT Activist 'Not Mistreated' by Yerevan Hospital Staff, Health Ministry Insists
He added that officials were only trying to establish whether the activist had received “sufficient services” at the hospital and refused to look into the victim’s complaint of ill-treatment, citing lack of jurisdiction and insisting ...
Police Urged to Punish Yerevan Hate Attackers
A statement issued by the Center also condemned the medical staff of Heratsi hospital complex for conduct “non-corresponding to medical ethics or the law of Armenia...
Group of LGBT Activists Attacked in Yerevan, Mocked by Hospital Staff
The hospital also failed to conduct a proper medical examination: “They demanded money and refused to otherwise treat [the activists]. They carried out some external exams, drew up protocols, and discharged them,” Hovsepyan said...