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With News Media Paralysed And Websites Inaccessible, Government Is Urged To Lift State Of Emergency
A 20-day state of emergency which President Robert Kocharyan proclaimed in the capital Yerevan on 1 March is having a serious impact on the activity of the news media, Reporters Without Borders said today. The emergency...
Ban on independent news coverage in Armenia contrary to OSCE commitments, says OSCE media freedom representative
VIENNA, 4 March 2008 - The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, called on Armenian authorities today to lift restrictions on independent news reporting that have been in place since the state of...
Freedom House Regarding Situation in Armenia
March 3, 2008 Freedom House Regarding Situation in Armenia
ARMENIA: Restrictions imposed as president declares emergency
New York, March 3, 2008—Armenian authorities should immediately lift restrictions on independent news reporting and the censorship of independent news Web sites, steps imposed when President Robert Kocharian declared a...
Human Rights Watch Regarding Situation in Armenia
March 2, 2008 Human Rights Watch Regarding Situation in Armenia
Armenian President Declares Emergency Situation
Armenian President Robert Kocharian on March 1 signed a decree declaring emergency situation in Armenia. “To eliminate the danger threatening the Constitutional order of the country and for protecting people’s rights...
<b>URGENT: Situatiation calmed down [23:40]</b>
[23:40] Situatiation calmed down According to our information at this moment the demonstration near the French Embassy is continuing. The square is surrounded by police forces, however they don't interfere the...
Events Chronicle
1. The house of the First President is under siege. The President is under house arrest. 2. The house of Khachatour Sukiassian is being searched. 3. Artist Grigor Khachatrian has been bitten up. 4. People are...
Levon Ter-Petrosyan Campaign Headquarters’ Statement
18:35 PM Today, early in the morning with brutal force peaceful protestors were dispersed from Liberty square, Yerevan. From current moment the First president of the Republic of Armenia, candidate for presidency Levon...
No “house arrest” MFA says: Ter-Petrosyan being “protected”
In his meeting with journalists early this evening Minister of Foreign Affairs Vardan Oskanian disputed reports that oppositionist and first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan is under “house arrest”. Oskanian said that, as...