L’Armenia arresta due conduttori di podcast per aver insultato Pashinyan
di Kilikia
L’Armenia arresta due conduttori di podcast per aver insultato Pashinyan
di Kilikia
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It seems that formally they were arrested for swearing at Pashinyan and his cabinet, but I wonder if there is something else going on.
There is a statute in Armenia which prohibits “insulting Pashinyan”? I find that hard to believe.
>Vazgen Saghatelyan and Narek Samsonyan, the hosts of Imnemnimi, were given two-month pretrial detention on Friday on charges of hooliganism. If found guilty, they could face up to five years in prison.
>In its statement about their arrest, Armenia’s Investigative Committee stated that Saghatelyan and Samsonyan committed hooliganism by ‘showing an openly contemptuous attitude towards moral norms’ and swearing at Pashinyan and his cabinet.
>The committee cited an episode streamed on YouTube on 20 March about a parliamentary session as the reason for their arrest. In the episode, Saghatelyan and Samsonyan are seen commenting on Pashinyan’s statements about the possible handover of four Armenian-occupied villages to Azerbaijan. They were charged with hooliganism the following day.
>AntiFake, the outlet that publishes Imnemnimi, published footage of Samsonyan’s arrest on Friday. The video shows a group of police officers, including those who appear to be plainclothes officers, tackling a man and pushing his face to the ground.
If you want to argue that “hooliganism by ‘showing an openly contemptuous attitude towards moral norms’ and swearing at Pashinyan and his cabinet” should be a crime, just say it people. On their face, the charges are already completely unjust, whether or not true.