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
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