Narine Ghalechyan

Affiliated media: RFE/RL, Journalist

Incident date: April 2, 2017

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Gegharkunik

Additional information:

At Tchambarak polling station 20/24 the work of Narine Ghalechyan, a journalist from radio “Liberty”, was impeded. She noticed a person in front of the booth watching a person voting. To the question by the journalist “why did you come up to the voting booth?”, the person replied, “it’s none of your business”, and proceeded to curse the journalist and demand that she took her phone and left the polling station.