{"id":258640,"date":"2014-10-14T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=258640"},"modified":"2014-10-14T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:21:17","slug":"258640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/10\/14\/258640.html","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Case Against Parliament Security Head for Preventing Journalist\u2019s Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Prosecutor General decided to initiate a criminal case in regards to an incident near the Armenian National Assembly between A1+ journalist Marine Khachatryan and National Assembly Security Service head Karen Hayrapetyan, reports Pastinfo.am.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“On occasion of the incident that the journalist’s professional legal activities were violated, the criminal case based on the RA Criminal Code article 164, part 1 was accepted by the proceedings and preliminary investigation of the RA Special Investigation Service (SIS),” said SIS Media Department Mikayel Aharonyan.  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier, the SIS had refused <\/span><\/a>to initiate a criminal case for the attack against the journalist.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTo recall, on September 9, at approximately 4:30, members of the “Counter-Attack”<\/span><\/a> (Hakaharvac) art group organized a protest in front of the National Assembly entrance where they placed a poster saying “Hello Rob”. The NA’s Security Service head, Karen Hayrapetyan, bursted out of the gates and attacked the “A1+” journalist Marine Khachatryan and threw her video recording device. Then spoke in a rough tone and used informal language with an Epress.am journalist, when asked to comment on his work and state his position he stated, “What am I doing, like I know who she is (Marine Khachatryan).”<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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