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Human rights | 07.07.10 | 15:26

Freedom of expression in Armenia: Ombudsman voices problems which worry mass media

By Karine Ionesyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
The Human Rights Defender of Armenia (Ombudsman) presented an Ad-hoc Public Report on the restrictions on activities of mass media and journalists on Wednesday, July 7, saying that last year the number of those restrictions was 18.

“If we yearn for democracy as a political regime, then we should know that its ‘soul’ is the Constitution, as a legal regime; and freedom of expression completes that legal regime,” says Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan, adding, that the (this) 10th Ad-hoc Public Report ‘Right to Freedom of Expression in the Republic of Armenia’, has no connection with United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Armenia.

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