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    Armenian Activists Lose Suit Against Newspaper That Named "Homosexual
    Lobbyists"

    "Hate speech and homophobia [are] highly sponsored by high level
    officials of Armenia," said activists denouncing the decision.
    posted on Oct. 31, 2014, at 9:25 a.m.
    J. Lester Feder
    BuzzFeed News World Correspondent

    Illustration from the Iravunk article, "They serve the interests of
    international homosexual lobbying: the blacklist of country's and
    nation's enemies." iravunk.com / Via iravunk.com

    A court in the Armenian capital of Yerevan dismissed a suit on Friday
    against the editor of a newspaper who published an article in May
    naming more than 50 "homosexual lobbyists" as part of a "blacklist of
    [the] country's and nation's enemies."

    The suit was brought by 16 of those named, including Mamikon
    Hovsepyan, head of the LGBT organization PINK Armenia. The article
    called for the people named to be ostracized and fired from their
    jobs. The initial article - which was followed by several others -
    came as the Armenian government had decided to withdraw from the
    process of affiliating with the European Union and announced that it
    would join the Russian-dominated Customs Union.

    In a statement denouncing the decision, Hovsepyan suggested that
    members of the ruling Republican Party had signalled to the court that
    it should rule in favor of Hovhannes Galajyan, editor of the newspaper
    Iravunk. MP Hayk Babukhanyan, who founded the newspaper and owns its
    parent company, attended the trial and received a medal of honor from
    the Armenian president on October 25.

    "We believe that high level support of official reflected on the
    decision of the Court and this shows once more that hate speech and
    homophobia is highly sponsored by high level officials of Armenia, and
    this creates atmosphere of impunity, gives floor for hate crime and
    fascism in the country," Hovsepyan said in a statement.


    http://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/armenian-activists-lose-suit-against-newspaper-that-named-ho

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