Khachatur Yesayan

Affiliated media: 1in.am , Cameraman

Incident date: August 4, 2022

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: от военных

Source: Zhirayr Voskanyan's Facebook page

Location: Nagorno-Karabakh, Nagorno-Karabakh

Additional information:

On August 4, representatives of the Russian peacekeeping forces banned the correspondent of the news website 1in.am Zhirayr Voskanyan and cameraman Khachatur Yesayan from entering Nagorno-Karabakh. The servicemen behaved extremely aggressively: they pointed machine guns at the media representatives and said: «If you want problems, we will easily create them for you. We are here to solve issues, everything is in our hands». Then, the journalist and the cameraman were forced into an armoured personnel carrier and taken to some unit, where the servicemen communicating with them wore masks. Later, Voskanyan and Yesayan were forced to return to Yerevan.