Tigran Hovsepyan

Affiliated media: Radio Azatutyun, Journalist

Incident date: August 26, 2023

Attack type:

• Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: от военных

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Goris

Additional information:

On August 26, the serviceman of the Russian peacekeeping forces in the zone of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict prevented the work of the correspondent of Radio Azatutyun Tigran Hovsepyan. On the sovereign territory of Armenia, in the town of Goris, which is not part of the zone of responsibility of the peacekeepers, the serviceman without any explanation forbade the media representative to film several dozen residents of Nagorno-Karabagh who arrived there through the Lachin corridor.