Affiliated media: Irates.am, Online publication

Incident date: May 16, 2019

Attack type:

• Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On May 16, Lilit Martirosyan filed a lawsuit to the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction against Tesaket LLC, seeking to make Irates.am website owned by the company publicly apologise for using offensive expressions and pay AMD 1 million in compensation. On June 3, court proceedings on the case were opened.