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Court rejects slander suit against Hraparak
A Yerevan court today rejected a slander suit against Hraparak daily after finding the charges against the newspaper ungrounded.
The suit was filed by attorney Arthur Grigoryan who sued the newspaper over allegedly insulting comments left by several readers on the periodical's online version. Experts considered it to be an unprecedented libel case, since for the first time a news outlet was sued for comments posted on its website and not for the content of an article. For the six comments Grigoryan demanded that Hraparak pay a total of 18 million drams in compensation.
The plaintiff is going to appeal the decision at a higher court.
