November 30, 2020 11:51
Kristina, Angelina and Maria, authors of the murder of Mikhail Khachaturyan, risk up to twenty years in prison: demonstrations and campaigns on social media in defense of victims of domestic violence
Facts – It was July 27, 2018 when Mikhail Khachaturyan, 57, was found dead on the stairs of the apartment building where he lived with his daughters. On the body stab wounds in the neck and chest. They are immediately arrested for the crime Kristina, Angelina and Maria, the daughters of the victim. After a long series of violence the straw that breaks the camel’s back: the man allegedly poisoned his daughters with a stinging spray causing an asthma crisis. Thus, fearing for their lives, the three girls waited for their father to fall asleep to hit him with a hammer and a knife. The man’s escape is useless: reached on the stairs, the mortal stab is inflicted on him.
The accusation – The testimonies, the expertise of doctors and psychologists are not enough to confirm the version of the girls who tell a nightmare that lasted years, made up of violence of all kinds. The ferocity of the attack on their father recorded by the surveillance cameras weighs on them. In January 2019 comes the accusation of premeditated murder which in Russia provides from 8 to 20 years of imprisonment.
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The “Khachaturyan case” and mobilization for victims of domestic violence – The case of the three murderous sisters after being victims of domestic violence causes a sensation. From Russia the debate goes around the world, Wikipedia dedicates a page to him in English. Petitions are launched on social networks, some of the 115,000 signatories flock to Moscow squares to ask for justice for the three sisters and for all the victims of domestic violence.
Russia, femicides and family crimes – In 2017, a law was approved in Russia that decriminalizes crimes committed within the family. Violence that does not cause “serious bodily harm” is punished with a fine of around 300 euros and 15 days of arrest. According to the “Anna” association, deployed against violence against women, 9,600 women are killed in the family every year in Russia.
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