ARM
Person- Short description (English)
6 trans sex workers were assaulted in a cruising area/sex work venue in Yerevan. The entrances of sex workers venue were surrounded by man with cars and some of them entered to the park itself to find trans people to beat them. victims hid in the the trees in the park, but they started to throw stones towards them to find them. One of the trans persons shouted that she is calling to Police and journalists, to whom usually transphobes afraid off. a police car at that moment by accident was driving on the nearest street and that gang thought that they really called them. They left the park after that group of trans sex workers were able to leave too, and they didn't come back on that that day again, in order to escape the possible second attack by the same gang
- Date of incident
- Oct 13, 2016
- Type of incident
- Assault
- Threats and/or psychological violence
- Type of perpetrator
- Gang
- Type of location of incident
- Near sex work venue
- Country
- Armenia
- Geolocation
Latitude: 40.0691
Longitude: 45.0382
- Geolocation