Armenian Women’s Front Member Attacked With Sharp-Cutting Object

Hasmik Sargsyan, a member of the Armenian Women’s Front, was on February 24 attacked by an unknown man. The woman describes the incident in an open letter, linking the attack to her support for the Sasna Tsrer group.

“In the evening, as I was walking to the entrance to my apartment building, a young man – with a hat over his face, wearing a dark-colored jacket – quickly approached me and hit me in one rapid movement. He then immediately ran away. Upon entering the building, I saw a cut on the breast of my jacket where he had hit that could only have been caused by a sharp-cutting object.” Sargsyan writes, stressing that this has been the third attack against her over the past year.

“The first attack took place on September 7, 2017 – during a hearing on Zhirayr Sefilyan’s case –  when the perpetrator stuck a 7-cm awl in front of multiple police officers into to the wheel of my car parked outside the Shengavit court,” according to the woman, the second attack occurred on December 12, 2017, in the same court.

“I can only explain all three incidents with my support for the Sasna Tsrer group. The criminal regime thus yet again shows its criminal and petty nature, but I assure you that they will never stop me,” Sargsyan writes.