“A1+” TV COMPANY AND A NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS TO HOLD TEN-DAY EVENTS
DEDICATED TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH

YEREVAN, APRIL 4, NOYAN TAPAN. The third year of depriving A1+ TV
company of air was on April 2, on the occasion of which the TV company
employees jointly with a number of human rights and other public
organizations held a procession of protest from Grigor Lusavorich
street to monument to Komitas next to Komitas Conservatory, where
signatures were collected. The participants of the procession demanded
to present immediatly the list of free TV frequencies and annouce
an open, transparent, public tender. Events dedicated to freedom
of speech will be held 10 days round in the evenings in the park in
front of the Conservatory, in order to secure ideology and importance
of freedom of speech. Posters including articles from newspapers
and Internet sites will be presented, reportings will be shown and
information inaccessible to society will be represented. According
to Mesrop Movsisian, the Director of “A1+” TV company, their main
task is to restore the freedom of speech in Armenia, which is the
problem of all journalists today. According to Shavarsh Kocharian,
a member of the NA “Ardarutiun” (“Justice”) faction, the Chairman
of the National Democratic Party, press plays a doctor’s role for
authorities: “No matter how much painful this or that publication
is for officials, the activity of press is like the activity of the
doctor that continuously cures the patient.”