YEREVAN. - Several representatives of Armenia’s LGBT community were beaten down near Yerevan’s central Poplavok café Monday evening.

President of Public Information and Need of Knowledge (Pink Armenia), Mamikon Hovesepyan, told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am correspondent today, noting that the assailants were unknown persons.

“They targeted mainly one of them, while the others tried to defend him andwere thus also hit. The LGBT representatives were on their way home when they were scolded and beaten,” Hovespyan said.

According to him, the young men didn’t suffer serious bodily injuries: they turned to a doctor, were examined and feel well now.

In Hovsepyan’s words, the victims launched a case into the incident.