Vahe Makaryan

Affiliated media: Mediahub.am, Journalist

Incident date: November 4, 2024

Attack type:

• Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On October 31, an incident took place in the building of the National Assembly between the Speaker of the Parliament Alen Simonian and Vahe Makaryan, a correspondent of the news website Mediahub.am accredited here. When the journalist from the opposition media asked for a comment from the Speaker, initially the communication had a joking character, then the interlocutors turned to mutual accusations, and it turned into an unapologetic verbal altercation with insults and foul language both from the side of Alen Simonyan and Vahe Makaryan. The situation was defused only after the intervention of the security service. A few days later, on November 4, the journalist was deprived of accreditation. As for the Speaker of the Parliament, the incident had no consequences for him.