Samvel Poghosyan

Affiliated media: 1in.am, Cameraman

Incident date: September 23, 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 September 23, on the day of snap elections to the Yerevan City council, at the polling station 8/05, the chairperson of the territorial commission Norik Yeranyan hit the hand of Diana Davtyan, a journalist from the news site “1in.am”. The journalist later said that one of the people escorting Arthur Manoukyan, a member of the National Aassembly, pulled cameraman Samvel Poghosyan by the shoulder to stop him from filming.