Yerkir.am - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Yerkir.am, News website

Incident date: September 9, 2020

Attack type:

Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

Gegham Vardanyan, the Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Internal Markets, Information Support, Information & Communication Technologies of the Eurasian Economic Commission, filed a lawsuit against Yerkir-newsroom LLC demanding to publicly refute information considered libel and insulting, apologize, and pay compensation. The reason for the lawsuit was an article in which Gegham Vardanyan is accused of corruption deals.

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