{"id":7766,"date":"2026-05-21T11:32:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinkarmenia.org\/?post_type=news_events&#038;p=7766"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:07:56","slug":"precedential-judgement-pinkarmenia","status":"publish","type":"news_events","link":"https:\/\/pinkarmenia.org\/en\/news-events\/precedential-judgement-pinkarmenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Towards LGBT+ Community as an Aggravating Circumstance.\u00a0Precedential Judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"image-shape \">\n\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-shape__spacer\" style=\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"row image-shape__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12 col-md-7\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-shape__shape-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-shape__shape\" style=\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff; \t\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground-image: url(https:\/\/pinkarmenia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/42.jpg); \t\t\t\t\t\t\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12 col-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-shape__oval-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-shape__oval\" style=\"\n\t\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff; \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 3 February&nbsp;2024, a&nbsp;group&nbsp;of people planned together and attacked an individual, inflicting moderate injuries with a knife or other sharp object. The attack was motivated by hatred toward the victim based on their sexual orientation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This case&nbsp;represents&nbsp;the first instance among dozens of similar cases documented by the organization over the years in which law enforcement authorities took the hate motive into account during the legal qualification of the offence and the investigation of the case,&nbsp;directly linking&nbsp;it to the victim\u2019s sexual orientation. It is also noteworthy that the response&nbsp;demonstrated&nbsp;in this case was connected, to some extent, with&nbsp;the fact that the victim was a United States citizen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the criminal proceedings, the investigative authority included in the charges the fact that the offence had been committed with a motive of hatred and intolerance toward a&nbsp;gay&nbsp;person.&nbsp;The prosecutor approved the&nbsp;indictment, and the case was referred to the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan City.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the examination and assessment of the evidence presented during the trial, the Court found the charges under Article 167(2), Points 7 and 15 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia to be substantiated and issued a guilty verdict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On 23 April 2026, the Court sentenced the defendants to 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, it is important to emphasize that this case remains a&nbsp;precedent in circumstances where dozens of other cases involving violence and hate-motivated offences against LGBT+&nbsp;people&nbsp;have not been effectively investigated, and where hate motives are frequently disregarded by law enforcement authorities. Distrust toward the law enforcement system among LGBT+&nbsp;people&nbsp;continues to constitute a serious and concerning issue, stemming both from ineffective investigations and from a deeply entrenched climate of impunity that has persisted for many years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 3 February&nbsp;2024, a&nbsp;group&nbsp;of people planned together and attacked an individual, inflicting moderate injuries with a knife or other sharp object. The attack was motivated by hatred toward the victim based on their sexual orientation.&nbsp; This case&nbsp;represents&nbsp;the first instance among dozens of similar cases documented by the organization over the years in which law enforcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7783,"template":"","categories":[121],"tags":[],"news_events-categories":[122],"class_list":["post-7766","news_events","type-news_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","news_events-categories-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hate Towards LGBT+ Community as an Aggravating Circumstance.\u00a0Precedential Judgement | Pink Armenia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hate Towards LGBT+ Community as an Aggravating Circumstance.\u00a0Precedential Judgement Pink Armenia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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