On 8 September, a member of the Armenian National Assembly brought forward a legislative proposal on insult and defamation that aims to increase fines for publishing insults and defamatory comments in the media and social networks. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) join their affiliate, the Union of Journalists of Armenia (UJA), in urging the parliament not to take up the proposal.
150 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total number of confirmed cases to 46119, the Armenian Center For Disease Control reported. 248 patients recovered, raising the number of total recoveries to 41941.
