Konstantin Ter-Nakalyan

Affiliated media: BlogNews.am, Editor

Incident date: January 30, 2019

Attack type:

• Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On January 30, Konstantin Ter-Nakalian, the editor-in-chief of the news site BlogNews, was summoned for questioning in relation to a criminal case on inciting religious hostility in the media. On September 24, 2018, the website Forrights.am reported that the Word of Life Evangelical Church of Armenia applied to the National Security Service of Armenia requesting that they launch a criminal case for inciting religious hostility, based on posts on the Dukhov Armenia Facebook page and BlogNews website.