Journalists- on the events in Berdzor
Even the journalist’s badge didn’t help the photojournalist of “Noyan Tapan” Anushavan Nikoghosyan to avoid the beating by policemen on Artsakh border on January 31. Today Anushavan Nikoghosyan told that when he was hit in the back, he showed his badge but it didn’t matter. He was hit for the second time. “Six policemen were hitting together. They tore the badge and the camera was lost,”- he told. The operator of the Founding Parliament Arsen Khechoyan reminded that on that day armed people had been already standing on the road, “They were well-prepared and filmed everything, they said that all the journalists could pass to the other side, but I didn’t pass,”- he remembers. Arsen Khechoyan said that they were asked to show the journalist’s badge and the policemen avoided the cameras, “No one wanted to be shot.” Today neither he nor Anushavan Shahnazaryan has cameras. Anushavan Shahnazaryan calls on to return his camera for the further professional activities but he won’t apply to the court, “I leave it on their conscience.” Anushavan still has got a headache, at night he had a temperature, but in general he feels good.
