Affiliated media: Forrights.am, Online publication

Incident date: December 12, 2019

Attack type:

• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

Since December 12, the Forrights.am website of the organisation "Reporters for Human Rights" was regularly attacked by hackers, which completely disrupted the operation of the website for a long time. The Cyber ​​Security Support Team, CiviCERT-AM, stated that this long-running and unprecedented scale attack is a violation of freedom of speech. Commenting on the attack, site editor Janna Alexanyan wrote on Facebook: “I have strong doubts as to who authored it. We are covering a criminal case involving one of the most famous oligarchs. This oligarch still has a great influence in Armenia, as you can see, in restricting freedom of speech” The website has now been restored.