News.am - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: News.am, Journalist

Incident date: November 28, 2025

Attack type:

Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On 28 November, a security officer guarding the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, pushed aside a correspondent from the news website News.am and struck her phone when she attempted to film the Prime Minister’s visit to the Yerevan music school named after Armen Tigranyan.

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