{"id":9791,"date":"2018-05-07T19:08:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T19:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/journalists-are-not-sure-that-their-attackers-will-be-punished\/"},"modified":"2018-05-07T19:08:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T19:08:50","slug":"journalists-are-not-sure-that-their-attackers-will-be-punished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2018\/05\/07\/9791\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Are Not Sure That Their Attackers Will Be Punished"},"content":{"rendered":"

17 cases of violence against journalists and interference in their work have been registered during the days of the My Step movement. This is reported<\/a> by the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office of Armenia. Criminal cases have already been instituted for 13 journalists across 11 cases.<\/p>\n

The two cases described in the prosecutor’s report are about Sut.am\u2019s journalist Tirayr Muradyan.<\/p>\n

Tirayr tells us that the first case was initiated against two persons wearing civilian clothing in front of the 3rd government building for having subjected him to violence<\/a>. \u201cI was recognized as a victim and interrogated. There are no suspects, they still haven\u2019t found the people who committed the acts of violence, moreover their identities are still not known to the body conducting the proceedings,\u201d says Tirayr.<\/p>\n

The second incident was registered on the Yerevan-Abovyan highway, when the journalist was violently seized and taken<\/a> by a civilian car to the Abovyan Police Department yard, then returned. A criminal case has been initiated. The journalist was interrogated as a victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking into consideration that the cases of violence against other journalists and I took place before Serzh Sargsyan\u2019s day of resignation, April 23, then I think that solving the crimes would be easier, their shouldn\u2019t use political restraint. Nevertheless, at this stage, I can\u2019t confidently say that all the cases will be solved,\u201d says Tirayr Muradyan.<\/p>\n

While covering the protests, CivilNet.am\u2019s journalist Ani Grigoryan was hindered during her professional work and her phone was also stolen. A criminal case has also been initiated based on this fact.<\/p>\n

Ani Grigoryan informs Media.am that the stolen phone had been returned, having been left in front of the door of her house.<\/p>\n

Taking into consideration the numerous attacks on journalists and years of undisclosed cases, the expectations of journalists regarding the filed cases are not high.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, now the Investigative Committee, the prosecutor\u2019s office and the police have the opportunity to prove whether the situation has changed or not. Many criminal cases have lots of materials, thanks to which the cases can be resolved in the shortest amount of time, however, as I said, most of the cases remain unsolved,\u201d said Ani Grigoryan.<\/p>\n

And based on the materials of the media, and the information published by the prosecutor\u2019s office, it turns out that police officers are also among those who attacked journalists.<\/p>\n

In all cases, journalists have been visibly wearing their professional badges\/certificates, and it was obvious that they were doing their job. In the described cases, while covering the mass protests, their certificates not only did not help protect them from attacks, rather the contrary, turned them into a target for attacks.<\/p>\n

Anahit Danielyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

17 cases of violence against journalists and interference in their work have been registered during the days of the My Step movement. This is reported by the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office of Armenia. Criminal cases have already been instituted for 13 journalists across 11 cases. The two cases described in the prosecutor’s report are about Sut.am\u2019s Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","author_posts-anahit-danielyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}