{"id":105689,"date":"2011-06-15T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T06:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=105689"},"modified":"2011-06-15T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T07:02:10","slug":"opportunities-for-armenian-news-agencies-liberal-activities-are-being-blocked-says-german-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/15\/opportunities-for-armenian-news-agencies-liberal-activities-are-being-blocked-says-german-ambassador.html","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities for Armenian News Agencies&#8217; Liberal Activities are Being Blocked, Says German Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Ambassador to Armenia Hans Jochen-Schmidt yesterday turned his attention to amendments to Armenia&#8217;s legislation and actions toward bringing Armenian laws in line with European standards, particularly speaking about the decriminalization of libel and insult laws, reports local daily Aravot (&#8220;Morning&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recently, judges issued some rulings which subject certain newspapers to enormous financial penalties. These, it can be said, are punitive mechanisms and are fatal for the given paper,&#8221; said Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador also recalled how prior to approving the amendments to the laws, Armenian authorities, headed by the president, presented and praised the project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The result contradicts the reality and blocks opportunities for more liberal activities in the media field,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Ambassador to Armenia Hans Jochen-Schmidt yesterday turned his attention to amendments to Armenia&#8217;s legislation and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,28242,11914,21386,28241,24723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}