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ARMENIAN ONLINE NEWS MEDIA REPORTED MORE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN LATE 2013: SURVEY
03.03.2014 12:59 epress.am
The number of articles on human rights issues in Armenian online news
media significantly increased in the November 2013 to January 2014
quarter as compared to the previous quarter [AM], according to findings
by social studies research center Socioscope for eTV (a joint project
between Epress.am and the Helsinki Association for Human Rights).
In this past quarter, 9 Armenian news websites (Epress.am, Tert.am,
Lragir.am, News.am, Azatutyun.am, Hetq.am, GalaTV.am, Aravot.am,
and iLur.am) published 1,756 articles related to human rights --
in other words, 752 articles more than the previous quarter.
The number of articles per online news media is as follows:
N% Aravot.am26415.03 News.am26114.86 GalaTV.am25514.52 Tert.am22012.53
Epress.am20911.90 iLur.am18110.31 Lragir.am1709.68 Azatutyun.am1126.38
Hetq.am844.78 Overall 1756100.00
The increase in articles on human rights issues is perhaps due to
the fact that during this quarter on several occasions, the right
to peaceful assembly was violated and a great many demonstrators
were detained or arrested by police. For instance, on Dec. 2, 2013,
during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Armenia, more than
100 peaceful demonstrators were detained.
There were also a large number of articles on the ban on family visits,
hunger strike, and other violations of the rights of Shant Harutyunyan
and his friends, arrested on Nov. 5, 2013, and the protest rallies
calling for the release of Karabakh War veteran Volodya Avetisyan.
Almost a third of the articles on human rights issues blamed the
Armenian police (578 articles, or 33.76% of the total). Compared to
the previous quarter, there were fewer news pieces that blamed no one
for the human rights violation reported in the article (15.25%). The
state was named as the guilty party in articles on the controversial
new pension reforms.
Who is identified as the violator of human rights?
N% Police57832.92 No one26615.15 Judges, the courts25514.52 Armenian
authorities, official Yerevan1226.95 Prime minister, government,
ministers (not of defense)955.41 Citizens of Armenia754.27 Republican
Party of Armenia412.33 Representatives of businesses in Armenia703.99
RA Ministry of Justice, Prison Administration (penitentiaries)653.70
RA Ministry of Defense, army officers, military prosecutor311.77
Officials, oligarch-officials181.03 Other1407.97 Overall1756100.00
Unchanged, however, was the articles' geographic focus: a majority of
articles on human rights violations were about incidents in the capital
(74.4%), thereby overlooking human rights violations in other parts
of the country.The19 news articles on the violation of the rights
of members of the media seen in the previous quarter grew to 88 news
articles in this quarter. This is due to the fact that all the online
media outlets included in this study covered the incident in December
whereby unidentified young men (later known to be affiliated with the
ruling Republican Party of Armenia and its most prominent members)
blocked journalists' entry into Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan's
supposedly public defense of his doctoral thesis at the Armenian
State University of Economics.
The entire report can be viewed here (in Armenian only).
Update on Mar. 3, 2013, at 8:23 pm (UTC +04:00): "Republican Party of
Armenia" and the number of times it appeared in the overall number
of articles was missing from the second table. We apologize for
the oversight.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/03/03/armenian-online-news-media-reported-more-human-rights-violations-in-late-2013-survey.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
03.03.2014 12:59 epress.am
The number of articles on human rights issues in Armenian online news
media significantly increased in the November 2013 to January 2014
quarter as compared to the previous quarter [AM], according to findings
by social studies research center Socioscope for eTV (a joint project
between Epress.am and the Helsinki Association for Human Rights).
In this past quarter, 9 Armenian news websites (Epress.am, Tert.am,
Lragir.am, News.am, Azatutyun.am, Hetq.am, GalaTV.am, Aravot.am,
and iLur.am) published 1,756 articles related to human rights --
in other words, 752 articles more than the previous quarter.
The number of articles per online news media is as follows:
N% Aravot.am26415.03 News.am26114.86 GalaTV.am25514.52 Tert.am22012.53
Epress.am20911.90 iLur.am18110.31 Lragir.am1709.68 Azatutyun.am1126.38
Hetq.am844.78 Overall 1756100.00
The increase in articles on human rights issues is perhaps due to
the fact that during this quarter on several occasions, the right
to peaceful assembly was violated and a great many demonstrators
were detained or arrested by police. For instance, on Dec. 2, 2013,
during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Armenia, more than
100 peaceful demonstrators were detained.
There were also a large number of articles on the ban on family visits,
hunger strike, and other violations of the rights of Shant Harutyunyan
and his friends, arrested on Nov. 5, 2013, and the protest rallies
calling for the release of Karabakh War veteran Volodya Avetisyan.
Almost a third of the articles on human rights issues blamed the
Armenian police (578 articles, or 33.76% of the total). Compared to
the previous quarter, there were fewer news pieces that blamed no one
for the human rights violation reported in the article (15.25%). The
state was named as the guilty party in articles on the controversial
new pension reforms.
Who is identified as the violator of human rights?
N% Police57832.92 No one26615.15 Judges, the courts25514.52 Armenian
authorities, official Yerevan1226.95 Prime minister, government,
ministers (not of defense)955.41 Citizens of Armenia754.27 Republican
Party of Armenia412.33 Representatives of businesses in Armenia703.99
RA Ministry of Justice, Prison Administration (penitentiaries)653.70
RA Ministry of Defense, army officers, military prosecutor311.77
Officials, oligarch-officials181.03 Other1407.97 Overall1756100.00
Unchanged, however, was the articles' geographic focus: a majority of
articles on human rights violations were about incidents in the capital
(74.4%), thereby overlooking human rights violations in other parts
of the country.The19 news articles on the violation of the rights
of members of the media seen in the previous quarter grew to 88 news
articles in this quarter. This is due to the fact that all the online
media outlets included in this study covered the incident in December
whereby unidentified young men (later known to be affiliated with the
ruling Republican Party of Armenia and its most prominent members)
blocked journalists' entry into Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan's
supposedly public defense of his doctoral thesis at the Armenian
State University of Economics.
The entire report can be viewed here (in Armenian only).
Update on Mar. 3, 2013, at 8:23 pm (UTC +04:00): "Republican Party of
Armenia" and the number of times it appeared in the overall number
of articles was missing from the second table. We apologize for
the oversight.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/03/03/armenian-online-news-media-reported-more-human-rights-violations-in-late-2013-survey.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress