Environmental activists has initiated a lawsuit against Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan, urging for a court order obliging him to deny recently published reports “amounting to a crime of defamation”.
The proceeding has been filed with the Yervan Court of General Jurisdiction and assigned to Judge Daniel Mkheyan. Tert.am obtained the case records from DataLex, an online database providing information on realtime court cases in Armenia.
The application has been co-signed by 15 environmentalists: Tehmine Yenokyan, Ani Khachatryan, Arthur Grigoryan, Levon Galstyan, Arkady Grigoryan, Mihrdat Nersisyan, Gagik Grigoryan, Tehmine Hunanyan, Susanna Margaryan, Henri Harutyunyan, Askanaz Hovhannisyan, Boris Khachatryan, Gor Ayvazyan, Anna Shahnazaryan and Milena Baghdasaryan