Affiliated media: Aravot.am, News portal

Incident date: March 18, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression (CPFE)

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On March 18, the news portal Aravot.am reported, citing a degree by the government “On the State of Emergency,” that police demanded that a publication be removed from the site in which commentary from the political analyst Valery Solovey from Ekho Moskvy was mentioned on the spreading of the coronavirus in Russia.