JOURNALIST ASSAULTED IN YEREVAN

news.am
March 22 2010
Armenia

Editor-in-Chief of the Hayots Ashkharh (Armenian World) newspaper
Gagik Mkrtichyan was beaten up in Yerevan on March 20.

The press service of the RA Police, informed NEWS.am that a certain
Manvel Kirakosyan (born in 1968) arrived at the Armenian medical
center and told doctors that Vahan Mkrtichyan, Gagik Mkrtichyan’s son,
had inflicted a head injury on him.

M. Kirakosyan and G. Mkrticnhyan had a conflict near the editorial
office of the Hayots Ashkharh newspaper. At that moment V. Mkrtichyan
was entering the office and, seeing the conflict, assaulted M.

Kirakosyan.

An investigation is under way.