Petros Petrosyan

Affiliated media: Civic.am, Cameraman

Incident date: May 9, 2021

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Civic.am

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

The work of the camera crew of the Civic.am news website was disrupted at a rally of the Armenia pre-election bloc at Yerevan's Liberty Square, headed by the second President of the Republic of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan. Kocharyan's supporters, perceiving these media representatives as «non-friendly», approached journalist Vladimir Hakobyan and cameraman Petros Petrosyan and started pushing them, threatening them with violence and not allowing them to film. As a result, the journalists were forced to leave the territory. The police officers on the square intervened in the conflict, but they did not draw up a report and did not provide conditions for the continuation of the camera crew's work.