Karine Simonyan

Affiliated media: RFE/RL, Journalist

Incident date: December 1, 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, Lori

Additional information:

On December 1, during a protest in front of the former municipality building of the Mghart settlement in the Lori province, a resident hit the loudspeaker of Karine Simonyan, a journalist from "Radio Liberty", instead of answering a question posed by Simonyan.