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Chairman of Committee for Protection of Freedom of Speech: Independent
judiciary system is the pledge of ensuring freedom of speech
arminfo
Tuesday, May 3, 19:56
An independent judiciary system is the pledge of ensuring freedom of
speech, Ashot Melikyan, Chairman of the Committee for Protection of
Freedom of Speech, said at today's press conference in Yerevan. "We
should strive to ensure independence of judicial instances, which will
by itself rule out any possible repression and unfair conclusions
about the press", he said.
At a press conference dedicated to the World Press Freedom Day,
Melikyan also touched on the problems in the mass media.
"Today international experts rank Armenia as a non-free country from
the viewpoint of freedom of speech and media. The indices of the past
few years are most dispiriting, as regress is observed in this
dimension", he said.
However, Melikyan also pointed out that alongside with pressure on
mass media, the media themselves have serious problems: "The main
problem of mass media in Aermenia is their inconsistency. Most part of
the press is part of the political system", said the expert and added
that another serious problem is non- observance of the rules of
ethics.
In this context, Edik Baghdasaryan, the president of Investigative
Journalists NGO, called on the journalists to observe the rules of
ethics and abstain from ungrounded swearing.
"Sometime it is possible to gain more by means of a relevant turn of
phrase, than by simple swearing", he stressed.
To note, on May 3 1991 the Windhoek Declaration, a statement of press
freedom principles put together by African newspaper journalists, was
signed. Two years later the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed
this day a World Press Freedom Day.
From: A. Papazian
judiciary system is the pledge of ensuring freedom of speech
arminfo
Tuesday, May 3, 19:56
An independent judiciary system is the pledge of ensuring freedom of
speech, Ashot Melikyan, Chairman of the Committee for Protection of
Freedom of Speech, said at today's press conference in Yerevan. "We
should strive to ensure independence of judicial instances, which will
by itself rule out any possible repression and unfair conclusions
about the press", he said.
At a press conference dedicated to the World Press Freedom Day,
Melikyan also touched on the problems in the mass media.
"Today international experts rank Armenia as a non-free country from
the viewpoint of freedom of speech and media. The indices of the past
few years are most dispiriting, as regress is observed in this
dimension", he said.
However, Melikyan also pointed out that alongside with pressure on
mass media, the media themselves have serious problems: "The main
problem of mass media in Aermenia is their inconsistency. Most part of
the press is part of the political system", said the expert and added
that another serious problem is non- observance of the rules of
ethics.
In this context, Edik Baghdasaryan, the president of Investigative
Journalists NGO, called on the journalists to observe the rules of
ethics and abstain from ungrounded swearing.
"Sometime it is possible to gain more by means of a relevant turn of
phrase, than by simple swearing", he stressed.
To note, on May 3 1991 the Windhoek Declaration, a statement of press
freedom principles put together by African newspaper journalists, was
signed. Two years later the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed
this day a World Press Freedom Day.
From: A. Papazian