- Justice for Journalists
covid-19

Affiliated media: Blognews.am, News website

Incident date: March 28, 2020

Attack type:

  • Non-physical and/or cyber-attacks and threats

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Committee to protect freedom of expression

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On March 28, the police sent a notice to the news site Blognews.am demanding to remove an article published by Narek Malyan entitled "Three days ago a man who never passed testing died: in our country, the tests are not for sick villagers, but for healthy Soros-backers". The editorial office did not follow the demand, but Malyan was not subject to administrative sanctions.

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