Affiliated media: Kentron TV, TV company

Incident date: August 22, 2023

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Court Information System

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On August 22, citizen Yurik Grigoryan filed a lawsuit against TV Company Kentron Multimedia Kentron CJSC with the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction demanding refutation of the defamatory information and payment of compensation. The reason for the lawsuit was the July 23 issue of the programme On the Traces of Crime of the mentioned TV company, in which, according to the plaintiff, the presumption of innocence was violated — he was accused of organising the murder: «He killed his former friend by blowing up the car: what does a local authority named Yuro Tohmakhsky have to do with it?». The lawsuit is being considered.