Affiliated media: Livenews.am, News website
Incident date: October 22, 2021
Attack type:
- prosecution for violation of the honour, dignity and business reputation; violation of privacy following civil lawsuit
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Court Information System
Location: Armenia, Yerevan
Additional information:
The leader of the party United Motherland Mher Terteryan filed a new lawsuit with the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction against the lawyer Hakob Charoyan (Live News Media LLC is involved in the case as a third party), demanding to refute the information considered as libel and to compensate the damage caused to honour, dignity, and business reputation. The reason for the lawsuit was the allegations voiced on June 30 in the author’s programme Ditaket (Observation Point) of the news website Livenews.am that «United Motherland leader Mher Terteryan tried to kill his wife», as well as other details from his personal life, which Terteryan’s ex-wife Naira Terteryan and her lawyer Hakob Charoyan spoke about during the programme. A similar lawsuit was filed on August 10, but the court returned it due to deficiencies. The new lawsuit is in the process of consideration.