Levon Sardaryan - Justice for Journalists

Levon Sardaryan

Affiliated media: Public TV of Armenia, Editor

Incident date: June 22, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Judicial information system

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On June 22, Livenews.am journalist Artur Hovhannisyan filed a lawsuit against the editor-in-chief of the Lourer program of the Public TV of Armenia Levon Sardaryan demanding an apology for the insult and a public refutation of information considered libel. The reason for the lawsuit was the post of Levon Sardaryan on Facebook regarding one of the articles on the mentioned website. The lawsuit proceedings were initiated, and the trial was started.

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