Zhirayr Voskanyan

Affiliated media: 1in.am, Correspondent

Incident date: August 4, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: от военных

Source: Zhirayr Voskanyan's Facebook page

Location: Nagorno-Karabakh, Nagorno-Karabakh

Additional information:

On August 4, representatives of Russian peacekeeping forces kept the correspondent of 1in.am news website Zhirayr Voskanyan and cameraman Khachatur Yesayan from entering Nagorno-Karabakh. The servicemen were very aggressive: they aimed their submachine guns at the media representatives and said: «If you want problems, we will easily create them for you. We solve problems here, everything is in our hands». Then, they made the journalist and cameraman get into an armored personnel carrier and took them to a subdivision where the military servicemen talking to them were in masks. Later, Voskanyan and Yesayan were forced to return to Yerevan.