Lilian Galstyan

Affiliated media: Panorama.am, Photo correspondent

Incident date: August 5, 2021

Attack type:

• Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Panorama.am

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

Lilian Galstyan, a photojournalist of the Panorama.am news website, was not allowed to pass through the checkpoint to the National Assembly building. Later, it turned out that she was deprived of her accreditation and the opportunity to cover the work of the parliament. In a letter, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia addressed to the editorial office of the website said that the photojournalist had photographed the security guards while carrying out her professional activities, which are prohibited. The editorial office, in turn, noted that these employees, who, according to the parliamentary administration, must hide their faces, do not do so and are in the session hall from where the live broadcast is taking place with open faces.