Demonstrators demand to return children to their mother (video)
A group of demonstrators gathered outside the Court of Cassation on Friday to demand punishment for Borik Grigoryan, a judge of Lori marz, for the decision he ruled against Lusine Ghabuzyan, a mother of five children. “Lusine Ghabuzyan petitioned for divorce after being subjected to domestic violence but her husband allowed her to take only three of the children. When Lusine applied to the court, the judge [Borik Grigoryan] decided to hold a sitting without the parties and deprived Lusine of parental rights,” Hasmik Gevorgyan, a member of the Women's Support Centre NGO, told A1+. Last December, Lusine went to the school where her children study without her husband’s knowledge. The children asked the mother to take them with her. “The five children are now under her care, but Lusine has to hide because there is a risk of being subjected to violence by her husband. On the other hand, there is the illegal decision of the judge,” lawyer Nona Galstyan. The demonstrators have addressed a letter to the Armenian Prime Minister, Ombudsman and Ministry of Justice with a request to punish the judge and invalidate the decision.
