Amalya Gabrielyan

Affiliated media: News.am, Journalist

Incident date: March 10, 2017

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Vanadzor

Additional information:

On March 10, during the pre-election campaign of the “Tsarukyan” alliance in Vanadzor, some people impeded the work of Amalya Gabrielyan, a journalist from the “News.am” news site. When the journalist tried to take a photo of how the residents of Vanadzor were giving a large number of letters to Tsarukyan’s representative, several women seized the journalist’s phone, threatened breaking it if she did not leave, saying they will be wrongly understood and “negative publications will be made”, whereas “Tsarukyan is the only hope for their city.”