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Foreign reporters denied entry as territorial dispute escalates

Published on 6 July 2011Read

Crippling lawsuits

Armenian newspapers threatened by libel suits with sky-high damages awards

Published on 1 May 2011Read

Authorities free jailed editor with brain tumour

Reporters Without Borders hails newspaper editor Arman Babajanian’s release on 4 August after a state commission decided he should be allowed to (...)

Published on 31 July 2009 Read

Online journalist beaten by unknown assailants

Reporters Without Borders today voiced dismay after journalist Argishti Kivirian was brutally beaten by a gang of unknown assailants in the (...)

Published on 30 April 2009 Read

With news media paralysed and websites inaccessible, government is urged to lift state of emergency

A 20-day state of emergency which President Robert Kocharyan proclaimed in the capital Yerevan on 1 March is having a serious impact on the (...)

Published on 5 March 2008 Read

Journalists physically attacked during election campaign

Reporters Without Borders called today for the punishment of those responsible for attacking or obstructing three journalists as they were (...)

Published on 21 February 2008 Read

Two newspaper editors to be prosecuted for disturbing the peace

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of two opposition newspaper editors - Nikol Pashinian of Haykakan Jamanak and Shoger Matevossian of (...)

Published on 30 October 2007 Read

“Disproportionate” prison sentence for newspaper editor who skipped military service

Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay today at the four-year prison sentence passed on Jamanak Erevan editor Arman Babajanian for evading (...)

Published on 31 October 2006 Read

Photographer assaulted in the north of the country

Photographer Mkhitar Khachatrian, of the PhotoLur agency was assaulted after taking photos of politicians’ private holiday villas in Tsaghkadzor (...)

Published on 26 August 2004 Read

Journalists beaten up covering opposition demonstration

Reporters Without Borders has protested after at least four journalists were attacked covering an opposition demonstration. One of them was also (...)

Published on 7 April 2004 Read

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Armenia - 10 August 2011

Internet agency retreats on filtering, but does not give up

Armenia - 8 August 2011

Heavy fines for two independent newspapers

Armenia - 3 August 2011

Nakhchivan authorities continue to harass IRFS correspondent

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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