Armenia
Outrage after Yerevan’s Mayor calls local media a ‘big garbage dump’
The comments came after Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan was investigated for corruption by CivilNet and the OCCRP.
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Journalist ‘attacked by Interior Ministry employees’ in Nagorno-Karabakh
A journalist working for an independent Armenian media outlet was beaten by individuals he alleges were Interior Ministry employees in civilian clothing in Stepanakert, two days after his phone was taken by police while covering a protest. Hayk Ghazaryan, a journalist at OC Media partners CivilNet, was attacked in the region’s capital on Tuesday evening. Ghazaryan had been filming protests that took place on 8 and 9 July against the region’s prosecutor’s office, during which a clash brok
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