Hripsime Jebejyan

Affiliated media: Aravot.am, Journalist

Incident date: March 9, 2017

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On March 9, during the press conference, Vardan Bostanjyan, a parliamentary candidate for the “Tsarukyan” alliance, instead of answering the journalists’ questions blamed them for carrying out tasks and orders. In particular, the speaker got angry at the observation by Hripsime Jebejyan, a journalist fromthe website “Aravot.am”, that site that Tsarukyan is perceived as a source of seeds and thread coil not a politician in the provinces.