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    Judge Throws Out Lernapat Mayor's Slander Suit Against Hetq Reporter

    hetq
    13:05, May 30, 2012

    Yesterday, Judge Varduhie Hovnanyan threw out the slander suit filed
    by Lernapat Mayor Vano Yeghiazaryan against Hetq reporter Andrineh
    Torosyan.

    The trial dates back to September, 2011 when Mayo Yeghiazaryan sued
    Torosyan for libel over an August 2011 Hetq article covering a judicial
    dispute between the mayor and local resident Gevorg Melkonyan.

    In her verdict, Judge Hovnanyan also stipulates that Yeghiazaryan
    must pay the reporter 150,000 AMD as compensation for her incurred
    legal fees.

    Yeghiazaryan had changed his original financial compensatory demand
    from 1 million AMD to a mere 1 AMD earlier this year. He still wanted
    Hetq to issue a public retraction of the "insulting and defamatory"
    information and publish an apology.

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