Karine Simonyan

Affiliated media: Radio Azatutyun, Journalist

Incident date: March 29, 2024

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Vanadzor

Additional information:

In the morning of March 29, the correspondent of Radio Azatutyun for the Lori and Tavush regions of Armenia Karine Simonyan, while in Yerevan, received a report that her work video camera was stolen from her flat in Vanadzor. According to the journalist, the video camera was empty, the intruders did not take anything else, although there were no less valuable things in the flat, and, most likely, the incident was linked to her professional activity and was an attempt to exert pressure and silence her.