Hayk Tonoyan

Affiliated media: News.am, Cameraman

Incident date: August 24, 2021

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression (CPFE)

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

In the building of the National Assembly, the security guards prevented media representatives from working. At the entrance to the session hall, the security officers threatened to deprive Hayk Tonoyan, the cameraman of the News.am information website, of his accreditation in the parliament if he continued to film the brawl between the deputies, and then they erased the footage he had filmed.