Affiliated media: A1plus.am, Online publication

Incident date: September 18, 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 September 18, former NSS Intelligence Colonel Eduard Harutyunyan filed a lawsuit to the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction against former member of the National Assembly Taron Sahakyan (with the founder of A1plus.am website "Meltex" LLC as third party), seeking a public apology of defamation and the retraction of allegedly slanderous statements. On September 23, the case was taken to court.