THERE IS TENDENCY OF INCREASE OF CRIMES AGAINST SEXUAL IMMUNITY AND FREEDOM IN ARMENIA

Noyan Tapan
July 3, 2009

YEREVAN, JULY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. There is a tendency of increase of crimes
against sexual immunity and freedom in Armenia, which should equally
cause anxiety both of legal bodies and the whole society. Deputy
Prosecutor General Mnatsakan Sargsian said this at the discussion at
the RA Prosecutor General’s Office on July 2.

Representatives of NGOs also took part in the discussion on the theme
"prosecutor system’s control over the investigation and inquest of
the crimes against sexual immunity and freedom, the situation in
prosecution defence at the courts in 2008."

The participants of the discussion noted that it is important to
raise the society’s literacy level, to pay attention to the sexual
education of the young generation at schools, which, according to
him, should be carried out by the specialists, psychologists and
sexopathologists. They attached importance to the protection of the
interests of the aggrieved, and one of its pledges is the use of
istitution of intermediary confrontations.