{"id":269785,"date":"2015-12-06T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T08:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269785"},"modified":"2015-12-06T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T08:06:34","slug":"electoral-commission-head-prohibits-newspaper-representatives-presence-at-polling-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/06\/electoral-commission-head-prohibits-newspaper-representatives-presence-at-polling-station.html","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Commission Head Prohibits Newspaper Representative&#8217;s Presence at Polling Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Arpine Khachatryan (pictured), the head of the local electoral commission at the 36\/39 polling station situated in the village of Sarnaghbyur in Armenia&#39;s northwestern Shirak province, refused to register an &ldquo;Asparez&rdquo; newspaper reporter at the precinct despite the journalist having presented a passport and an authorization certificate issued by the media outlet, head of the Gyumri-based Asparez Journalists&#39; Club, member of Gyumri Council of Elders Levon Barseghyan reported on his Facebook page, adding to the already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/06\/observer-missions-record-first-violations-in-constitutional-referendum-voting.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">existing list of violations<\/span><\/a> recorded during the ongoing draft constitutional amendments referendum.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBarseghyan claims that after 15-minute negotiations the commission head agreed to register the representative of Asparez.am website; however, the official was adamant on registering the newspaper&#39;s representative, arguing that the newspaper and the website were the same thing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Commission head Arpine Khachatryan failed to understand that &#39;Asparez&#39; newspaper and &#39;Asparez.am&#39; website are different media outlets, although they have been founded by the same legal entity [&hellip;] Thus the electoral commission head has violated Article 40.6 of [Armenia&#8217;s&nbsp;Code on Administrative Offences] &#8211; logging misconduct, which is punished by a fine of up to 300 times the minimum wage,&rdquo; the civic activist wrote.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe editor-in-chief of &ldquo;Azparez&rdquo; newspaper has reported the &ldquo;crime pursuant to the RA Criminal Code Article 149 &#8211; &#39;hindrance to implementation of the right to elect, to the work of election commissions or to the implementation of the authority of the person participating in elections&#39; &ndash; to the head of the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia,&rdquo; Barseghyan noted.<\/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>The editor-in-chief of \u201cAzpares\u201d newspaper has reported the \u201ccrime pursuant to the RA Criminal Code Article 149 &#8211; &#8216;hindrance to implementation of the right to elect, to the work of election commissions or to the&#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":269781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269785"}],"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=269785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}