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Targeted violence against journalists by police dispersing protest
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2488.htm
Publisher: Reporters without Borders
Date Written: 29/06/2015
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
Reporters Without Borders condemns targeted Armenian police violence against journalists at dawn yesterday in Yerevan, when the authorities used force to disperse a sit-in by large crowd of demonstrators protesting against electricity price hikes.
Abstract: Reporters Without Borders condemns targeted Armenian police violence against journalists at dawn yesterday in Yerevan, when the authorities used force to disperse a sit-in by large crowd of demonstrators protesting against electricity price hikes.
Police attacked at least ten journalists and almost systematically confiscated or smashed their equipment. At least 11 journalists were briefly detained.
“We are shocked by the use of such disproportionate force against journalists who were jus...
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