Chief of the Armenian Police Vladimir Gasparyan has reprimanded the policeman that was on duty during the beating of ilur.am journalist Hakob Karapetyan. His immediate superior has also been reprimanded, while the deputy head of the Nor Nork Police Department has been dismissed.
On April 23 ANC disseminated a statement saying that in the course of Mayor Taron Margaryan's meeting with voters in the Nor Nork Community, Aram Papyan, a member of the given community and the event organizer and his supporters beat up an opposition journalist Hakob Karapetyan. They seized the camera of the journalist and deleted the record. The journalist got bodily harms.