Hripsime Jebejyan

Affiliated media: Aravot.am, Journalist

Incident date: May 14, 2017

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

At the polling station 7/46 in Yerevan's Malatia-Sebastia district, Ripsime Dzhebedzhyan, a journalist from "Aravot.am", noticed that voters were showing their ballots to Arayik Gevorgyan, a party official. When questioned, Gevorgyan became angry, shouted, threatened and insulted the journalist, at one point saying "If you were a guy, I'd break your jaw". Dzhebedzhyan referred the incident to the police, who did not bring charges "due to a lack of grounds for conviction"