Edik Baghdasaryan (Armenian: Էդիկ Բաղդասարյան) is a prominent investigative journalist known for his stories exposing government corruption in Armenia.
[2] In September 2008, Baghdasaryan won the 2008 Global Shining Light Award at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference held in Norway for his series of articles "The Minister and the Mining Sector," which revealed how Armenia's former Minister of Nature Protection Vardan Ayvazyan had allocated mines (mostly for gold and poly-metallic) to more than a dozen relatives' names, thus violating several laws.
[1][7] He was ambushed and beaten by three unknown assailants as he was getting into his parked car shortly after leaving his office in downtown Yerevan at 8 pm.
[1] Two people attacked him, dealing heavy blows to him, while a third person hit him behind the head with a large object, causing him to faint; they took off part of his clothing, leaving him half naked.
[8] The assailants fled after a security worker from a nearby construction site alerted by the quarrel fired a shot into the air.