Background of the Issue: On August 27, 2010 Aziz Tamoyan, President of Ezidi’s National Union of Armenia, addressed the Media Ethics Observatory with a complaint on “Hraparak” daily, which had published a piece “The Secret Mania of Tamoyan or a Rape Attempt as Rib” on August 21, 2010. In the complaint the President of Ezidi’s National Union noted that the contested article contained untrue information.
MEO addressed a letter to the daily offering its mediation in the conflict (“Hraparak” is not a member of the media self-regulation initiative). The newspaper did not respond to the offer.