Affiliated media: Armlur.am, News website

Incident date: March 22, 2023

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Armlur.am

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On March 22, the editorial office of the newspaper Zhoghovurd received a letter from the Chief of Staff of the National Assembly of Armenia David Arakelyan, which contained a «warning» addressed to the editor-in-Chief Knar Manukyan. The reason for this was a photo report published the day before on the website Armlur.am (the owner of the website is the same editorial office), which showed the security officers of the parliament gathered at the door of the session hall in order to enter it at the first order of the presiding officer and calm down the rioting MPs. According to the author of the letter, with this publication, the editorial office violated a number of resolutions of the Speaker of the National Assemly, which forbid taking photos and videos of security officers. The letter was preceded by a phone call from the information service of the parliament, which demanded to remove the publication from the website.