President Armenia lifts some media restrictions during emergency state
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President of Armenia Robert
Kocharyan has signed on March 13 a
directive amending a state of emergency decree, REGNUM correspondent reports referring to the head of state's press service.
In the part about the work of media, the decree will now read: “It
is prohibited to provide the media with deliberately wrong and
destabilizing information regarding state and internal political
issues, incite participation in illegal events, publish and
disseminate such information and agitation by any means and in any
ways.” The decree is coming into effect on March 14 2008.
The decree on the state of emergency was signed by
the president on March 1 and is supposed to be in effect for 20 days.
On March 10, the president sanctioned that provisions of the decree
pertaining to political parties and public organizations be dropped.
12:38 03/13/2008
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