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Reporters without borders (press release), France
Oct 30 2007
Two newspaper editors to be prosecuted for disturbing the peace
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of two opposition
newspaper editors - Nikol Pashinian of Haykakan Jamanak and Shoger
Matevossian of Chorrord Ishkhanutiun - along with some 10 supporters
of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian during an opposition march in
Erevan on 23 October.
After being freed the next day, the two journalists learned at a
press conference given by the police that they are to be prosecuted
under articles 258 and 316 of the criminal code for `disturbing the
peace' and `violence against an official.' The charges carry a
maximum sentence of a month in prison and a fine equivalent to 50
times the minimum monthly wage.
`We call on the Armenian authorities to drop the charges against
Pashinian and Matevossian and to show more tolerance towards
opposition journalists,' Reporters Without Borders said.
According to the Yerevan Press Club, the police confiscated the
camera of photographer David Jalalian of the newspaper Haik when he
went to the police station where the opposition members were being
held. The camera was finally returned but some of his photos had been
deleted by the police.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_articl e=24192
Oct 30 2007
Two newspaper editors to be prosecuted for disturbing the peace
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of two opposition
newspaper editors - Nikol Pashinian of Haykakan Jamanak and Shoger
Matevossian of Chorrord Ishkhanutiun - along with some 10 supporters
of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian during an opposition march in
Erevan on 23 October.
After being freed the next day, the two journalists learned at a
press conference given by the police that they are to be prosecuted
under articles 258 and 316 of the criminal code for `disturbing the
peace' and `violence against an official.' The charges carry a
maximum sentence of a month in prison and a fine equivalent to 50
times the minimum monthly wage.
`We call on the Armenian authorities to drop the charges against
Pashinian and Matevossian and to show more tolerance towards
opposition journalists,' Reporters Without Borders said.
According to the Yerevan Press Club, the police confiscated the
camera of photographer David Jalalian of the newspaper Haik when he
went to the police station where the opposition members were being
held. The camera was finally returned but some of his photos had been
deleted by the police.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_articl e=24192