June 1, 2009
Yerevan City Council Election: Journalists Beaten up
A1plus.am(12:53 pm, May 31, 2009): Journalists of “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” and “Hayq” dailies, Gohar Veziryan and Tatev Mesropyan were beaten up at Precinct 9/1 located at School N33 at 10.25 today morning.
Witnesses say the journalists were beaten up by Armenian MP Levon Sargsyan’s bodyguards.
Gohar Veziryan and Tatev Mesropyan were attacked after making inquires about the parliamentarian. They wondered why the deputy didn’t quit the precinct after the vote.
The bodyguards started railing at the journalists and beating them. Later they seized the recorder of Zhamanak Yerevan’s reporter Marine Kharatyan.
At present the journalists are giving an account of the incident at the Kentron Police Station.
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