Piruza Meliksetyan

Affiliated media: Irates.am, Online publication

Incident date: February 15, 2019

Attack type:

• Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison
• Court trial

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On February 15, the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction held its first hearing on the case of Armen Khachatryan vs. the Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper "Irates" Piruza Meliksetyan, seeking a public retraction of allegedly slanderous comments. On September 24, 2018, the case was accepted for proceedings in court.