{"id":259466,"date":"2014-11-05T17:38:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=259466"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:38:27","slug":"discrimination-in-armenia-is-encouraged-on-a-state-level-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/11\/05\/discrimination-in-armenia-is-encouraged-on-a-state-level-statement.html","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination in Armenia is Encouraged on a State Level: Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Discrimination and hate speech, continuous physical and psychological pressure on individuals, as well as inappropriate remarks by the judicial system in Armenia are impermissible, said a joint statement signed by 30 organizations.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The statement&rsquo;s authors express their concern about Yerevan Kentron and Nork-Marash District General Court Judge Ruben Nersisyan&rsquo;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/10\/31\/259295.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">verdict<\/span><\/a>,&nbsp; which refused the 16 plaintiffs demand to hold the Iravunk Media company and Iravunk paper&rsquo;s editor-in-chief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/10\/21\/journalist-continued-to-offend-armenian-lgbt-rights-activists-in-court.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Hovhannes Galajyan<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;accountable for damaging the plaintiffs&rsquo; honor and dignity. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">&ldquo;With this decision the court endangers the citizens\u055b security, immunity, and right to be free from discrimination, and it benefits future dangerous manifestations of discrimination,&rdquo; noted the statement.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The statement presents the conviction that such attitudes toward citizens, sponsored on a state level, create an environment of impunity and fertile soil for stronger manifestations of hate crimes in the future.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">&ldquo;In particular, the Republican Party of Armenia faction MP Hayk Babukhanyan, the editorial board founding-president of Iravunk Media company who publicly supports the legitimacy discriminatory statements. While Hayk Babukhanyan received the state&rsquo;s most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.am\/news.php?cat_id=2&amp;NewsID=6959&amp;year=2014&amp;month=10&amp;day=25\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">prestigious medal<\/span><\/a>,&nbsp;the ceremony lit a green light to the distribution of society&rsquo;s segregatory and polarizing viewpoints,&rdquo; noted the NGO representatives.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The statement&rsquo;s authors are demanding the RA authorities to:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">to condemn discrimination and hate encouraging calls by senior officials and other individuals through mass media and other outlets,<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tto safeguard an independent, comprehensive, and objective examination of court cases based on hate,\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tto safeguard the present case&rsquo;s targeted sixteen plaintiffs&#39; security and immunity, the right to be free from discrimination and violence.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statement presents the conviction that such attitudes toward citizens, sponsored on a state level, create an environment of impunity and fertile soil for stronger manifestations of hate crimes in the future&#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":259440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19073,58102,15655,58103,28720,58436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259466"}],"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=259466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}