Yesterday a Yerevan court of Kentron and Nork-Marash communities made a verdict of 3.6 million AMD fine, 75.000 AMD state penalty against the Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper. Reminder: The “Haykakan Zhamanak” daily claimed on February 6 that Levon Kocharyan was detained by the Dubai police following the incident. Kocharyan denied the report and demanded a retraction. The newspaper rejected the demand, leading him to sue it for defamation of character and demand over 16 million and 120.000 drams ($43,000) in compensatory damages. The court decided that the newspaper shouldn’t redress the moral damage as it is not defined by the law. By the way, the newspaper is going to appeal this decision.
