Reporter brutally beaten at Yerevan protest remains in hospital

Journalist and outspoken government critic Abraham Gasparyan, who was brutally beaten by special police officers while being detained at a protest outside the Armenian parliament on Wednesday, remains in the hospital.

The reporter was hospitalized with concussion and fractured ribs after being taken to a police station in Yerevan covered in blood, with his clothes ripped off and barefoot.

Gasparyan's wife, Arpi Harutyunyan, said he was still in persisting pain and hardly ate anything.

“The doctors decided that he would stay in the hospital for the time being,” the woman said in a social media post on Friday, adding some 100 people, including strangers, visited the reporter.