Demonstrating against gender based pregnancy terminations, protesters placed kids’ shoes on the ground to symbolize female babies not born as a result. Information brochures were distributed to passersby showing the gender disparities in births in Armenia. Protest organizers claim that this tendency can have painful repercussions including a rise in crime, kidnapping of women and an exodus of males.
A chess board and pieces made of bread is one of the unique pieces a visitor to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) HistoryMuseum in Yerevan can see on display.
On 5 December Khadija Ismailova, a journalist with Radio Azadliq, was sentenced to pre-trial detention for two months on charges of inciting a person to commit suicide. If convicted, Ismailova may face up to seven years in prison.
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