Anna Gevorgyan - Justice for Journalists

Anna Gevorgyan

Affiliated media: Hzham.am, Director of the news website

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 (datalex.am)

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On June 22, citizen Nelly Mikaelyan filed a lawsuit in the court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan against the director of the Hzham.am website Anna Gevorgyan, demanding a refutation of the information that the plaintiff considers to be libel, a public apology, as well as the payment of compensation of AMD 2,000,000. The reason for the lawsuit was the material published on the website on May 14, 2019, under the heading «Who is this mysterious beauty and what does she have to do with pedophilia?». The lawsuit proceedings were initiated, and the trial has started.

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