From 4:00 p.m., March 16, at least four websites – NEWS.am, a1plus.am, hetq.am and lragir.am — were blocked at the Armenian Parliament, Chairman of the Heritage parliamentary faction Stepan Safaryan told NEWS.am. He pointed out that free access to other websites was available.

At 5:00 p.m., the Armenian National Congress (ANC) held a rally in Yerevan, which was being covered by the four websites. The rally marked the 2nd anniversary of the tragic events in Yerevan on March 1, 2008. Also, youtube.com was unavailable in the Armenian Parliament.

The acting head of the press service, RA Parliament, Gohar Petrosyan said that all the websites of the .am domain were freely available during the period. A number of sites on foreign domains encountered technical problems, which were resolved by the Arminco Company. Hakobyan also insisted that she visited the aforementioned sites without any problems.

T.P.