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Armenia: NGOs Condemn Arson Attack on Gay-Friendly Bar

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Armenia, Ethnicity & Race, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, LGBTQ+, Women & Gender, Youth

Unzipped: Gay Armenia posts the text of a statement by a group of NGOs including the Helsinki Citizens Assembly in Vanadzor, Women's Resource Center, and Pink Armenia, among others, condemning the 8 May arson attack on D.I.Y. [1], a gay-friendly bar in Yerevan. The blog also reports that two members of a Neo-Nazi group, Dark Ravens Armenia, have been arrested [2] [EN/AM].