Artem Sargsyan

Affiliated media: Yerevan.Today , Cameraman

Incident date: June 3, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Yerevan.Today

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On June 3, Artem Sargsyan, the cameraman of the Yerevan.Today news website was injured in clashes between law enforcement forces and people protesting outside government cottages in Yerevan. The website's editor, Sevak Hakobyan, said that the police officers snatched a monopod for a video camera from Sargsyan's hands and started beating the protesters with it. In the process, the cameraman's leg was damaged, the broadcasting device was lost, and the live broadcast was interrupted.