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Prosecutor General instructs to probe incident outside Armenian Parliament
Armenia's Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan has instructed that media reports and materials of the September 9 incident at the entrance of the National Assembly, that involved A1+ reporter Marine Khachatryan and chief of thee parliament security Karen Hayrapetyan, be forwarded to the Special Investigation Service for investigation. On September 9, after members of the Counterblow street art group hung a banner reading “Hello Rob” (Rob referring to Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan) on the National Assembly’s main gate, Karen Hayrapetyan, the chief of the NA security, came out and tore down the banner. Then he hit A1+’s journalist Marine Khachatryan, who was covering the incident, on the arm, causing her to drop her iPad.
