2024-04-20 18:51:51
Attempts to silence this program in a “campaign” manner are condemned and will continue. The day is not far when the authors of the program will come and take their seats, during the emergency release of the “Imnemnim” podcast, referring to the accusations brought against the authors of the program Vazgen Saghatelyan and Narek Samsonyan, said Narek Samsonyan’s lawyer Ruben Melikyan.
Referring to the report of the RA Investigative Committee, Melikyan stated that he has the impression that it is not the RA Investigative Committee’s statement, but the statement of the CP. “As of now, we are still considered a democratic country and we repeatedly quote those standards, political speech is subject to the highest protection. Here we have a very specific situation, which refers to harsh critical speech during the discussion of a political issue. There is no question of hooliganism here. Today they revived the article of grave insult. In the application of that crime, there is a requirement of the law to disturb the peace of people. According to the Investigative Committee, the curses uttered by Narek and Vazgen disturbed the peace of people.”
Let’s remind that the court made a decision to detain Narek Samsonyan for two months, and Vazgen Saghatelyan’s arrest petition is currently being examined.
It should also be noted that they were charged with criminal prosecution under Article 297, Part 2, Clauses 1 and 3 of the RA Criminal Code, for the fact that “they, by complementing each other’s actions as part of a group, used information and communication technologies using, being the presenters of the given program during the said program, realizing the presence of an audience of many thousands, committed hooliganism on purpose, that is, showing disrespectful attitude towards the society and openly contemptuous attitude towards moral norms, uttering curses and obscene expressions towards the members of the RA government and the representatives of the authorities” :
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