ArmInfo. Gayane Abrahamyan, MP from the ruling <My Step> bloc announced her intention to initiate a bill amending the Law on Media Activities. The parliamentarian announced this following the results of the International Parliamentary Seminar on Freedom of the Media, in which the Armenian delegation consisting of Anna Kostanyan and Shake Isayan also took part.
Abrahamyan emphasized that a working group would be formed in the near future, inasmuch as since 2003 the Law "On Media Activities" has not been subjected to any adjustments, and serious omissions were made in this regard. We have a pretty big and difficult job to do>, the MP announced.
She noted that during the seminar she emphasized a rather important detail for herself: since 2018, the number of cases of violence against media representatives in the world has almost doubled, adding that most often journalists are persecuted in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Hungary, where not only their professional activities, but also their lives are at stake.
During the seminar, issues of ensuring the protection of media representatives were discussed, as well as the fight against fake news, which, according to the deputy, is already perceived throughout the world as a real and quite serious risk to national security and democracy.
Representatives of the parliaments of Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Romania, Latvia, New Zealand, Serbia, Bahrain, Kenya, Great Britain and Armenia participated in the international seminar.