Yerevan.Today - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Yerevan.Today, Information site

Incident date: April 19, 2021

Attack type:

  • Court trial

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Judicial Information System

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

Businessman Khachatur Sukiasyan filed a lawsuit against Media Plus LLC in the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction, demanding that they publicly apologise for publishing “slanderous” information and pay 3 million Dram in compensation. The lawsuit followed the publishing of an article entitled “Beware: Khachatur Sukiasyan’s gasoline will break your car. Deja vu” published on the Yerevan.Today website (owned by LLC). The claim has been accepted and legal proceedings have begun.

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