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KAZAKHSTAN-ARMENIAN COMMUNITY REP. MAY BE FINED FOR SNATCHING JOURNALIST'S RECORDER
10.09.2014 12:15 epress.am
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/10/09/kazakhstan-armenian-community-rep-may-be-fined-for-snatching-journalist%E2%80%99s-recorder.html
The Armenian Investigation Committee has instituted a criminal case
in behalf of a violation against a journalist's work. The complaint
was presented by local daily "Haykakan Zhamanak" journalist Taguhi
Hovhannisyan in regards to an incident on October 3.
The journalist had told her editor that on the day of the incident in
the Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet building,
where the "Armenia-Diaspora" conference was taking place, the director
of the Kazakhstan-Armenian community's Nairi Association, Artyusha
Karapetyan snatched her audio recorder. Then Karapetyan asked his
escorts to grab and take away the journalist's telephone. One of the
escorts, whose badge wrote "Abrahamyan A", snatched her phone and
deleted a video recording and returned the phone back to her.
According to the Investigation Committee report, the Kentron (Downtown)
investigation department instituted a criminal case RA criminal
code article 164, first part (hindrance to the legal professional
activities of a journalist, or forcing the journalist to disseminate
information or not to disseminate information).
If the investigation finds Karapetyan guilty, then he would be
receiving minimal punishment of the sum of 200 to 400 minimum
salaries. Artyusha Karapetyan has received significant protest from
his community for election fraud, for closing the church as retaliation
to protests, and restricting Armenian Genocide commemorations.
10.09.2014 12:15 epress.am
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/10/09/kazakhstan-armenian-community-rep-may-be-fined-for-snatching-journalist%E2%80%99s-recorder.html
The Armenian Investigation Committee has instituted a criminal case
in behalf of a violation against a journalist's work. The complaint
was presented by local daily "Haykakan Zhamanak" journalist Taguhi
Hovhannisyan in regards to an incident on October 3.
The journalist had told her editor that on the day of the incident in
the Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet building,
where the "Armenia-Diaspora" conference was taking place, the director
of the Kazakhstan-Armenian community's Nairi Association, Artyusha
Karapetyan snatched her audio recorder. Then Karapetyan asked his
escorts to grab and take away the journalist's telephone. One of the
escorts, whose badge wrote "Abrahamyan A", snatched her phone and
deleted a video recording and returned the phone back to her.
According to the Investigation Committee report, the Kentron (Downtown)
investigation department instituted a criminal case RA criminal
code article 164, first part (hindrance to the legal professional
activities of a journalist, or forcing the journalist to disseminate
information or not to disseminate information).
If the investigation finds Karapetyan guilty, then he would be
receiving minimal punishment of the sum of 200 to 400 minimum
salaries. Artyusha Karapetyan has received significant protest from
his community for election fraud, for closing the church as retaliation
to protests, and restricting Armenian Genocide commemorations.