2024-06-08 01:26:44
The press organizations assertion:
“At the moment, on March 5, in Yerablur, when Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the grave of Vazgen Sargsyan, the work of journalists there was hindered. The staff of the State Safety Service pushed the journalists and cameramen away from the world, arguing that they weren’t accredited to cowl the occasion. Journalists’ makes an attempt to movie no less than from a distance have been met with harsh opposition by the representatives of the facility buildings, who thought-about these areas to be their service zone.
We, the undersigned journalistic organizations, word that this ban and the formal requirement for accreditation is a unprecedented and unacceptable phenomenon, contemplating that we’re speaking concerning the protection of the ceremony happening in Yerablur. We categorical our indignation and condemn this unreasonable restriction. The explanations given by the facility buildings don’t face up to any criticism, as a result of the mass media weren’t knowledgeable prematurely concerning the want for accreditation, and it was not truly organized.
Based mostly on the above, we demand from the Authorities employees:
to publicly clarify the unjustified ban utilized, in addition to assure that such practices is not going to be repeated sooner or later,
when organizing any official occasion of public curiosity, topic to protection, create favorable circumstances for journalists, excluding any obstacles to their authorized actions.”
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT FREEDOM OF SPEECH
YEREVAN PRESS CLUB
CENTER FOR MEDIA INITIATIVES
INSTITUTE OF MULTISIDED INFORMATION – ARMENIA
“APAREZ” CLUB OF JOURNALISTS
CENTER FOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
PUBLIC JOURNALISM CLUB
“JOURNALISTS FOR THE FUTURE” NGO
“JOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS” NGO
PRESS CLUB OF GORIS