Arpi Hakobyan

Affiliated media: Factor.am, Journalist

Incident date: October 20, 2023

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: 1in.am

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On October 20, in Yerevan, in the building of the representative office of the unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, where a protest action of Karabakh residents displaced to Armenia was taking place, the activities of Armenian media representatives were obstructed. In the videos circulated in various social networks it is seen how the President of the unrecognised republic Samvel Shahramanyan pushed away the hand of the journalist of the news website Factor.am Arpi Hakobyan holding the microphone, and people from his entourage tried to snatch from the hands of the correspondent of Channel 5 Arpi Sukiasyan the phone she was using for filming.