On the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day, the Union of Journalists of Armenia congratulates and deeply thanks its international partners, “International Federation of Journalists” and “European Federation of Journalists” (IFJ, EFJ), as well as the Council of Europe (CoE) ” Safety of Journalists Platform” for principle and consistency.
I am sharing this story of fraud in seafood industry in Mauritania in an effort to disclose the dark sides of doing business in Mauritania and warn about potential risks as the one below for those companies who want to do business in Mauritania.
Today, in support of Tavush, citizens blocked Yerevan-Tbilisi road in Dseghi section and carried out a peaceful action. The policemen in uniform as well as in civilian clothes urged the participants of the action to open the road and then use force against the citizens, including the representatives of the mass media.
The police officers used brutal force against Ani Gevorgyan, journalist and editor of NewDay.am website, and cameraman Janibek Khachatryan, who covered the protest action of citizens in Tavush region for days against the unilateral concessions and the false process of border demarcation and delimitation initiated by the authorities.
My grandmother Hasmik Kanayan passed away on the night of April 24, 1998, with her innermost wishes unaccomplished: visiting her sister Heghine’s and her husband’s tombs, and returning back to her birthplace, Igdir, which she had been forced to flee at the age of 10.
Overwhelming International Support and Pressure Leads Azeris to Allow Communications With Family After Twenty Days in Isolation as Humanitarian and Business Leader Faces Deteriorating Health
Message of the Third President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on the Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide
The Department of Information and Public Relations of the Prime Minister’s Office has announced that “the ceremony of paying tribute by the top leadership of the Republic of Armenia on the occasion of the 109th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide on April 24 will be ceremonial” (it will be broadcast live on an open channel by the Public Television Company). The same message states that the Prime Minister’s staff will only accredit photographers to cover the event, and all media representatives will be allowed to enter the memorial from 09:30.
Following the family’s urgent appeal to the international community regarding his hunger strike, Ruben Vardanyan was allowed to call his family for the first time, after more than two weeks of incommunicado detention.
The family of Ruben Vardanyan, illegally detained in Azerbaijan, announced today that he entered into a hunger strike to demand the immediate and unconditional release of himself and the other Armenian prisoners illegally held in Baku.
