'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...
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 ...
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....
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 [...] ...
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 ...
'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...
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...
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...
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...
Domestic Violence 'Natural' Part of Family Life in Armenia's Gegharkunik Province
The WRC recently organized a field trip to Gegharkunik to raise awareness about the different forms of violence against women and to educate the women of the province on how to protect themselves against domestic violence...
Yerevan Man Sentenced to 11.5 Years in Prison for Ex-Wife's Murder
In her closing argument, Safaryan told the court yesterday that Arakelyan should have been convicted of a particular cruel murder, which provides for a sentencing range that includes life imprisonment...
Anonymous Feminists: “They Make Money Through Our Dead Bodies”
We believe that this patriarchal act of war can be stopped by the collective action and demand for institutional demilitarization and end of state oppression across the region...