Affiliated media: Hraparak.am, Online publication

Incident date: October 28, 2019

Attack type:

• Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On October 28, Tigran Khzmalyan, the former director of Yerevan Studio, filed a lawsuit to the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction against the newspaper company Hraparak Daily LLC, seeking compensation and the public retraction of allegedly slanderous claims. On November 6, the case was taken to court proceedings.