Narek Samsonyan

Affiliated media: Antifake.am, Podcast host

Incident date: November 13, 2025

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Azatutyun TV

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On 13 November, officers of the National Security Service carried out a search at the offices of the news website Antifake.am, confiscated all equipment used for online broadcasting, and then detained journalist David Fidanyan, accusing him of "obstructing the justice". On 14 November, another employee of the site, Ishkhan Khosrovyan, was also detained. Khosrovyan was released a few hours later, while Fidanyan was released three days after. These actions were taken after the hosts of the “Imnemnimi” podcast, Vazgen Saghatelyan and Narek Samsonyan, used obscene language and threats while criticising the country’s top officials in their two most recent episodes (8 and 12 November). Both were subsequently detained and taken in by the same National Security Service on charges of hooliganism, and later remanded in custody for two months following the court order.