Davit Harutyunyan

Affiliated media: 1in.am, Cameraman

Incident date: March 15, 2017

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

Mass media representatives went to a district to cover the pre-election campaign of the “Exit” alliance. When the representatives and journalists of “Exit” were trying find out why the campaign poster of the candidate from “Tsarukyan alliance” is in the hall of the complex, the personnel hurried to remove it. The cameramen videotaped those actions, which generated resentment amongst school personnel. The latter started to use explicit language words and threatened the media representatives. One of the personnel attacked the journalist Diana Davtyan from “1in.am” website, scratching her hand while trying to seize the cell phone, then kicked the journalist and pulled her by the hair. Another staff member hit the camera of Narek Barsedhyan, the cameraman from “Armtimes.com”.