Women’s Rights

January 10, 2017 | 13:47
‘Will Kill You If You Leave Me;’ Women’s Group Shares Story of Yerevan Domestic Violence Victim

When the man phoned home from prison and asked what “his Artyom” was doing, the grandmother replied, “he wants his mother.” Arthur, then, urged his mother to “buy him a plush bunny to play with...

December 14, 2016 | 14:27
Assault Suspect Sent to Jail After Beating Wife in Public

According to the widow, the defendant had come to the December 2 hearing in a “fairly good condition;" but after realizing that he was going to be taken into custody, he began complaining of severe pain...

November 29, 2016 | 12:43
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 ...

November 28, 2016 | 16:10
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....

November 28, 2016 | 12:20
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 [...] ...

November 27, 2016 | 17:29
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 ...

November 25, 2016 | 17:59
‘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...

November 25, 2016 | 14:39
Women’s Rights Activists Blame Police Indifference for Domestic Violence Victims’ Deaths

The WRC regional hotline, meanwhile, received 2125 calls, including 1816 domestic violence-related ones. This, Yeghiazaryan told reporters, also shows that domestic abuse rates have grown over the country in the last year...

November 15, 2016 | 20:15
No Extreme Cruelty in Yerevan Woman’s Stabbing Murder, Appeals Court Rules

There’s even witness testimony which indicates that the woman was killed in a particularly cruel way. According to one of the eyewitnesses, Arakelyan had pinned the woman to the floor and ‘was just doing his job sitting atop...

November 9, 2016 | 17:27
Former Armenian MP Threatens to ‘Hurt’ Ex-Wife and Send Her to Jail, Lawyer Reports

According to Torosyan, the former parliamentarian repeatedly subjected Avagyan to physical abuse while they were married, and when she finally divorced him, he threatened to take her child away and make sure that the woman ended up in jail...

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January 10, 2017 | 13:47
‘Will Kill You If You Leave Me;’ Women’s Group Shares Story of Yerevan Domestic Violence Victim

December 14, 2016 | 14:27
Assault Suspect Sent to Jail After Beating Wife in Public

November 29, 2016 | 12:43
Assault Suspect Stabbed While Partying After Badly Beating Wife

November 28, 2016 | 16:10
Assault Suspect Who Beat Wife in Broad Daylight Taken to Hospital (Updated)

November 28, 2016 | 12:20
Yerevan Woman Bleeds to Death after Being Stabbed by Intimate Partner

November 27, 2016 | 17:29
Woman Cruelly Beaten on Yerevan Street by Husband

November 25, 2016 | 17:59
‘Okay When She’s Asking for It;’ March in Yerevan Against Domestic Violence

November 25, 2016 | 14:39
Women’s Rights Activists Blame Police Indifference for Domestic Violence Victims’ Deaths

November 15, 2016 | 20:15
No Extreme Cruelty in Yerevan Woman’s Stabbing Murder, Appeals Court Rules

November 9, 2016 | 17:27
Former Armenian MP Threatens to ‘Hurt’ Ex-Wife and Send Her to Jail, Lawyer Reports

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Women’s Rights

January 10, 2017 | 13:47 ‘Will Kill You If You Leave Me;’ Women’s Group Shares Story of Yerevan Domestic Violence Victim

December 14, 2016 | 14:27 Assault Suspect Sent to Jail After Beating Wife in Public

November 29, 2016 | 12:43 Assault Suspect Stabbed While Partying After Badly Beating Wife

November 28, 2016 | 16:10 Assault Suspect Who Beat Wife in Broad Daylight Taken to Hospital (Updated)

November 28, 2016 | 12:20 Yerevan Woman Bleeds to Death after Being Stabbed by Intimate Partner

November 27, 2016 | 17:29 Woman Cruelly Beaten on Yerevan Street by Husband

November 25, 2016 | 17:59 ‘Okay When She’s Asking for It;’ March in Yerevan Against Domestic Violence

November 25, 2016 | 14:39 Women’s Rights Activists Blame Police Indifference for Domestic Violence Victims’ Deaths

November 15, 2016 | 20:15 No Extreme Cruelty in Yerevan Woman’s Stabbing Murder, Appeals Court Rules

November 9, 2016 | 17:27 Former Armenian MP Threatens to ‘Hurt’ Ex-Wife and Send Her to Jail, Lawyer Reports

January 10, 2017 | 13:47
‘Will Kill You If You Leave Me;’ Women’s Group Shares Story of Yerevan Domestic Violence Victim

December 14, 2016 | 14:27
Assault Suspect Sent to Jail After Beating Wife in Public

November 29, 2016 | 12:43
Assault Suspect Stabbed While Partying After Badly Beating Wife

November 28, 2016 | 16:10
Assault Suspect Who Beat Wife in Broad Daylight Taken to Hospital (Updated)

November 28, 2016 | 12:20
Yerevan Woman Bleeds to Death after Being Stabbed by Intimate Partner

November 27, 2016 | 17:29
Woman Cruelly Beaten on Yerevan Street by Husband

November 25, 2016 | 17:59
‘Okay When She’s Asking for It;’ March in Yerevan Against Domestic Violence

November 25, 2016 | 14:39
Women’s Rights Activists Blame Police Indifference for Domestic Violence Victims’ Deaths

November 15, 2016 | 20:15
No Extreme Cruelty in Yerevan Woman’s Stabbing Murder, Appeals Court Rules

November 9, 2016 | 17:27
Former Armenian MP Threatens to ‘Hurt’ Ex-Wife and Send Her to Jail, Lawyer Reports