Armenian Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan held a phone conversation with Russian High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova over guaranteeing the rights of Khachaturian sisters three teenage sisters of Armenia origin accused of murdering their father.

As the Ombudsman’s office reports in a release, Tatoyan arranged with Moskalkova to exchange information regarding the sisters’ case, consider the concerns voiced by the public, including human rights watchdogs for examining them along with other materials of the case and where relevant take actions in the scope of her capacities.

To note, investigators charged the three Khachaturian sisters with killing their 57-year-old businessman father shortly after his body with multiple stab wounds to the neck and chest was found in an apartment in Moscow on July 27, 2018. When questioned, the young women pled guilty and explained that they had reasons for hostility towards their father, because he abused them mentally and physically for a lengthy period of time. According to state commission findings reported by Russian media the prominent local businessman and churchgoer had insulted, humiliated, threatened and “subjected his daughters to physical and sexual violence.”