Haykakan Zhamanak: 239 women convicted in Armenia in 2013

According to Armenia’s National Statistical Service, 239 women were convicted in Armenia in 2013, marking a 13 percent increase against the same period in 2012, Haykakan Zhamanak writes.

A 41 percent increase was recorded in 2013, compared with 2008. Over the past five years, the highest number of female convicts was recorded in 2009 (353), the newspaper says.