Armenian journalists working in favorable environment - MP

ArmInfo. The environment in which Armenian journalists work today has never existed before. This was stated to journalists on March 27 by Sarkis Khandanyan, Chairman  of the RA National Assembly Committee on Foreign Relations, MP from  the ruling Civil Contract faction. 

According to him, the incident that occurred the day before in  parliament is just an incident, and it cannot be used to judge the  general situation with the country's journalistic community,  especially in the context of freedom of speech and human rights. "In  any case, today in Armenia journalists are not persecuted, as was the  case in the past, there are no convicted media representatives in the  country, they are free to do their job of providing services to the  citizens of the republic," the MP noted. He pointed out that in the  past, there was an absolute monopoly in the media sphere, which,  however, has not undergone significant changes after the Velvet  Revolution of 2018. "Today, we are simply seeing a monopoly in the  opposition field in the information field," Khandanyan noted.

Recall that on March 26, journalists held a peaceful protest in the  Armenian parliament against the behavior of Andranik Kocharyan, a  deputy from the Civil Contract faction, who had previously insulted  journalist Hripsime Jebejyan. Security Service officers forcibly  removed the journalists from the gallery of the parliament and took  away the posters they were holding in their hands.