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No criminal case initiated over assault on A1+ journalist

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No charges have been brought in connection with a September 9 incident near the National Assembly in which the security chief of the National Assembly attacked a reporter who was covering a street action, Lusine Margaryan, Spokesperson for the Special Investigative Service, told Pastinfo news agency. “Based on the September 12 report of the Association of Informed Citizens and on the footage posted on the website of Hetq.am, the SIS is preparing materials for initiating a criminal case,” she said. 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, the chief of the NA security Karen Hayrapetyan 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.