Friday, January 21 2022 18:46

ArmInfo.While international human rights and  journalistic organizations at various levels express concern over the  sharp deterioration in connection with the sharp deterioration of the  situation with ensuring freedom of speech and the press in Armenia,  the authorities of the republic continue to persecute the media and  journalists at the lowest level. This is stated in today's statement  of the Union of Journalists of Armenia (UJA).

The statement notes that certain representatives of the authorities  (some of them are former journalists) with their obscene expressions  and vulgar statements addressed to journalists cross all the  boundaries of decency. Apparently, in this way the authorities, and  Nikol Pashinyan personally, demonstrate their real attitude towards  the press and freedom of speech in general.

For a long time, representatives of the authorities on various  platforms and various formats have been conducting an all-out attack  against the media, and the statements of members of the ruling party  only illustrate the ongoing processes.

Freedom of speech and a free press, with all their shortcomings, have  survived among the few institutions that are trying to act as checks  and balances against the authorities, which are approaching  dictatorship day by day.

The low level of professional solidarity and consolidation in the  journalistic environment also facilitates the anti-popular and  anti-democratic position of the authorities to a certain extent.  There are both objective and subjective reasons for this, and in some  cases manifestations of unethical behavior on the part of some of our  colleagues.

The Union of Journalists of Armenia resolutely condemns the unworthy  statements of the representatives of the ruling faction against the  press, calls on the authorities to call their speakers to order and  prevent the degradation of civilization in Armenia.

We call on the media and journalists not to succumb to provocations,  and even in the most difficult situations to remain true to their  high professional mission", the UJA statement concludes.