Tirair Muradyan

Affiliated media: Armtimes.com, Journalist

Incident date: May 12, 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, Yerevan

Additional information:

Tirair Mouradyan, a journalist from the “Armtimes.com” news site, noticed that a group of women near Republican Hakob Beglaryan’s campaign office were guiding voters to the polling station. The journalist tried to get a comment from one of them, but the woman got irritated, turned and tried to avoid the camera. To the questions “why are you guiding the voters?” she replied with explicit language, then hit the camera and tried to take it.