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    CHIEF EDITORS CALL ON JOURNALISTS TO OPPOSE TO AMENDMENTS IN CIVIL CODE

    Tert.am
    04.05.10

    Armenian journalists should be unified against the intuitive to
    introduce amendments to the Civil Code of the Republic of Armenia
    which will assign fees for "slanderous publications" in press, Anna
    Hakobyan Chief Editors of the local Armenian daily Haykakan Jamanak
    (Armenian Times) and Armine Ohanyan, Chief Editors of the local
    Armenian daily Hraparak (Square) said at a press conference today.

    According to Anna Ohanyan it is difficult to say anything unless the
    law is implemented, but "so far we have not seen any change that is
    made in favor of the press."

    "In fact they [the authorities] realized that the best way to exert
    pressure on media is the financial one. We may be sentenced, but the
    newspaper may be printed," said Ohanyan, adding that their newspaper
    would close down, should a complaint, worth several million AMD,
    be filed against it.

    Contrary, Anna Hakobyan said she was a little optimistic about it.

    "To tell you the truth I am a little optimistic about it. I hope that
    the community of journalists will be unified and will not allow those
    amendments to be implemented at all, and that they will remain at
    this stage of discussions, because if this happens, it will be the
    very change that no one will be able to work, no separate journalist
    will be able to work. This is the very case when the situation in
    our media will aggravate ... and we will lose our achievements,"
    explained Hakobyan.
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