{"id":256352,"date":"2014-07-23T14:11:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T10:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=256352"},"modified":"2014-07-23T14:12:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T10:12:13","slug":"osce-freedom-of-media-representative-concerned-over-armenia-court-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/23\/osce-freedom-of-media-representative-concerned-over-armenia-court-decision.html","title":{"rendered":"OSCE Freedom of Media Representative Concerned Over Armenia Court Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovi\u0107 (pictured) on Tuesday expressed concern about a court ruling in Armenia that forces media outlets to disclose their sources of information, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/fom\/121541\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>statement <\/strong><\/span><\/a>published on the OSCE official website.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn June 26 the Administrative Court of the Kentron and Nork-Marash districts in Yerevan ruled that two media outlets, Hraparak newspaper and iLur.am news portal, should disclose their sources as part of the criminal investigation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/13\/i-have-not-given-interviews-to-anyone-wrestler-artur-aleksanyan-on-incident-with-shirak-police-chief.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>involving a high-level police official<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of the Shirak region.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;I am concerned that this ruling might have a chilling effect on media as it could thwart reporting on issues of public interest,&rdquo; Mijatovi\u0107 said. &ldquo;The need for journalists&rsquo; professional confidentiality with public and private sources of information must be acknowledged.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tShe noted that the right of journalists to protect the identity of sources is a key principle of investigative journalism and has repeatedly been declared as a basic requirement for freedom of expression by the OSCE.<\/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>OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovi\u0107 on Tuesday expressed concern about a court ruling in Armenia that forces media outlets to&#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":256349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18574,11976,56997,21516,11397,55418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256352"}],"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=256352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}