RFE/RL reporter banned from video-recording election wrongdoing

14:37 – 02.12.12

A journalist of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Armenian
service was assaulted in Yerevan’s Nor Nork District on Sunday morning
while trying to video record “registered voters’ ” organized
transportation to a polling station in minibuses.

Opposition candidate Stepan Safaryan Safaryan’s (Heritage party)
campaign headquarters says in a statement that the attack took place
as the journalist, Irina Hovhannisyan, was trying to fix the moment in
her camera.

`The video-recording device was seized from the journalist for a
moment and returned shortly after. We will issue additional comments
in this connection,’ reads the statement.

From: Baghdasarian