{"id":245362,"date":"2013-12-13T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=245362"},"modified":"2013-12-13T00:45:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T20:45:31","slug":"journalists-collect-signatures-against-offensive-armenian-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/12\/13\/journalists-collect-signatures-against-offensive-armenian-mp.html","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Collect Signatures Against Offensive Armenian MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Journalists began collecting signatures in Armenia&#39;s National Assembly, and they intend to submit a complaint to the parliamentary Ethics Commission against Republican Party of Armenia MP Manvel Badeyan. At 3:30 pm on Wednesday, 47 journalists accredited in the parliament signed the complaint. The petition was initiated by Sona Grigoryan, a journalist with local daily Zhoghovurd, who will submit the signatures to Ethics Commission member, MP Nikol Pashinyan.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn parliament on Wednesday, journalists asked Badeyan to explain why he insulted the Yazidi people in a comment made on Dec. 10. In response, the MP called the journalists who raised the issue &quot;scumbags&quot;. &quot;That was a private conversation &mdash; why did you make it subject to publication? It was utterly a private conversation; it was not meant to be printed. They are scumbags like those who make a trumped-up case [&hellip;] ah, yes, you can publish that: that I consider them scumbags. As for the Yazidis, I have nothing against them. It was a private conversation, which had nothing to do with my interview. They take it and publish it,&quot; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, in parliament on Tuesday, a journalist had asked the MP whether it was appropriate that the program &quot;What, Where, When&quot; was broadcast on Armenian television in the Russian language. &quot;Are you really that low-levelled that you think like that? If this question was asked by some Yazidi on the street I wouldn&#39;t be surprised, but do you really think like that?&quot; MP Badeyan replied, adding that &quot;the working language of that program is Russian.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tInsulted by Badeyan&#39;s comment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2013\/12\/10\/armenia-yezidi-group-delivers-toilet-paper-to-mp-for-racist-remarks.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><strong>members of the Sinjar Yezidi National Union protested<\/strong><\/span><\/a> outside the National Assembly, bring along a roll of toilet paper and an image of a donkey to give to the MP.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLater, Sinjar Yezidi National Union issued a statement that Badeyan had apologized to the Yazidi people.<\/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>Journalists began collecting signatures in Armenia&#8217;s National Assembly, and they intend to submit a complaint to the parliamentary&#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":230052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36534,52112,20902,52071,34769,21816,18854],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245362"}],"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=245362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}