Narine Ghalechyan

Affiliated media: News.am, Journalist

Incident date: April 20, 2018

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On April 20, next to Mashtots Park in Yerevan, police tried to apprehend correspondents Gayane Saribekyan and Narine Ghalechyan from “News.am” and "Radio Liberty" respectively, when protesters moved from Amiryan Street towards Mashtots Avenue. In an interview with CPFE the journalists said they were taken for demonstrators, but when they saw their journalistic accrediation, they stopped exerting force.