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Justice

Court rejects Alen Simonyan's lawsuit against Edgar Ghazaryan

First reported by 24news.am: 10:02

Updated 19:21, 18 sources

Justice. Photo: president.am / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped
Photo: president.am / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

According to MP Edgar Ghazaryan, on October 14 the Yerevan Civil Court of First Instance rejected the lawsuit filed by Security Council Secretary Alen Simonyan, who demanded a retraction of information he considered defamatory and 2 million drams in compensation. The lawsuit concerned a publication titled "Family Corruption". According to Ghazaryan, Simonyan must pay him 100,000 drams to cover lawyer's fees.

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