Tirair Muradyan

Affiliated media: Armtimes.com, Journalist

Incident date: April 2, 2017

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, Yerevan

Additional information:

On the day of parliamentary elections at the polling station 9/28 in Yerevan (a school in Kond), the professional activity of Tirair Mouradyan, a journalist from the “Armtimes.com” news site, was impeded. He noticed that a group of women had gathered near Republican Hakob Beglaryan’s campaign office and were guiding voters to the polling station. The journalist tried to get a comment from one of them, but the woman got irritated, turned and tried to avoid the camera. She replied to the question of “why are you guiding the voters?” with insults directed at the journalist, then hit the camera and tried to seize it.