A Step Too Late: Social Network Signatures Call For Improved Policies On Domestic Violence in Armenia

Human rights activists and an online pressure group are demanding a law that would deal with domestic violence after a young woman in an Armenian province, as preliminary evidence shows, died at the hands of her husband and mother-in-law.
Zaruhi Petrosyan, 20, an orphan and mother of an 18-month-old child, died in hospital on October 1 after suffering cranial brain hemorrhages, a broken finger and bruises in different parts of her body. While shortly before her death she said she had fallen down, her neighbors and sister claimed the woman had suffered violence at the hands of her family members.

Police later reported they had detained and were questioning Petrosyan's 30-year-old husband in her death.  Read more... (746 words)

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