YEREVAN, DECEMBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The cameraman of "Gala" television company Grigor Shaghoyan on December 18 received a registered letter dated "November 30", in which the police informed him that no criminal case was opened in connection with the fact of assaulting him. NT correspondent was informed about it on December 19 by the headquarters on protection of speech freedom and "Gala" television company. To recap, during checkings at "Gala" TV company on November 6, the employee of the operative investigation department of the RA State Tax Service (STS) Hovik Hovhannisian made an assault on the cameraman. The headquarters stated that the assault on the cameraman on November 6 is an action, for which responsibility is envisaged by the RA Criminal Code's Article 164 Part 2 "Hindrance to the Legal Professional Activities of a Journalist". The headquarters takes the view that J. Kalashian, investigator of the Shirak regional investigation unit of the RA Police Main Investigation Department, and K. Tovmasian, the head of this unit, displayed intentional carelessness in not finding corpus delicti in the actions of the indicated employee of the STS. So the cameraman of "Gala" TV company and the person representing his interests will dispute this decision according to the current legislation in the Shirak regional prosecutor's office.

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