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Armenian parliament criminalizes calls for violence
... violence. YEREVAN, April 15. /ARKA/. Armenian Parliament has approved today in the second and final reading a package of amendments to the Criminal Code, which criminalize calls for violence. More specifically, the amendments criminalize calls for violence, its justification or campaigning based on sex, race, color, ethnic or social background, genetic characteristics, language, religion, political or other views, belonging to national minorities, property status, birth , disability, age, or other social and personal reasons. According to the amendments,...
04/15/2020Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression: fewer cases of physical violence against journalists recorded in quarter 3, 2021
In the third quarter of 2021, a total of 3 cases of physical violence against journalists, 20 cases of pressure on media and journalists and 37 cases of violation of the right to receive ... ... decrease in the wave of abuse and insults on the Internet, which was noted in the post-war period and continued during the election race for June 20 snap polls. Melikyan said the third quarter caused great concern among journalists and the media, primarily in ...
10/22/2021European Court to issue soon its first decisions on suits filed over violent events in Yerevan in 2008
... Saghtelyan versus Armenia and Gaspari versus Armenia, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time) reports. These cases are connected with the violence applied against protesters in Freedom Square in Yerevan in a clear breach of the Constitution. Mushegh Saghatelyan then ... ... After the 2008 presidential election, Armenian opposition headed by the first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who lost the then race for presidency, staged protests saying the election had been fraudulent and the results had been rigged. The rallies ended ...
09/18/2018Greek law criminalizing denial of Armenian, Greek and Assyrian genocides may be overturned by ECHR, ARF official warns
... because of falling under freedom of expression, warned today Kiro Manoyan, a senior official of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/ Dashnaktsutyun, reminding the case of Dogu Perincek. The new anti-racism law introduces penalties for those who incite violence or hatred on the grounds of race, religion and ethnic origin. In addition, the new law makes it illegal to deny the genocides of Jews, Armenians, Assyrians and Ottoman Greeks. Parties or associations supporting racism may be deprived of state funding for a period of one to six months ...
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