Knar Manukyan

Affiliated media: Armlur.am, Editor

Incident date: March 15, 2019

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 16, the Special Investigation Service filed a lawsuit against the newspaper "Zhoghovurd" for publishing preliminary investigative secrets. Earlier, on March 15, the SIS officially announced that the disclosure of information containing preliminary investigative secrets could lead to criminal liability and requested that the media refrain from publishing such information “made available” by some unscrupulous participants of the lawsuit as a result of a leak of information. On January 23 2020 the Appellate Court ruled the actions of SIS illegal.