Arpine Hovhannisyan

Arpine Ashot Hovhannisyan (Armenian: Արփինե Աշոտի Հովհաննիսյան) (born 4 December 1983) is an Armenian politician, lawyer, former Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia, and currently one of the Vice Presidents of the National Assembly in the Republic of Armenia. Hovhannisyan is also the first female to ever hold the position of Justice Minister in Armenia.

Arpine Hovhannisyan was born on 4 December 1983 in Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Arpine Hovhannisyan is unmarried. She is a supporter of involving more women in Armenian politics, and has stated that the relatively low number of female deputies in Armenia is not due to legal discrimination, but women’s psychology.

She was criticized for the previously prisoned citizen Arthur Sargsyan's death. On March 17, 2017 participants of a demonstration in Yerevan demanded bringing to justice the Minister of Justice Hovhannisyan, as well as all the investigators who sentenced Sargsyan to arrest, which indirectly led to his death.

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