NATIONAL PRESS CLUB CALLS ON LEGAL BODIS TO TAKE NECESSARY ACTIONS TO REVEAL ONES TAKING STEP OF TERRORISM AGAINST JOURNALIST
Noyan Tapan
Feb 12 2007
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The National Press Club (NPC)
expressed its indignation on the occasion of the terrorism step against
Ara Saghatelain, the owner of the "Im Iravunk" (My Right) newspaper
and "Panorama.am" electronic periodical. As it is mentioned in the
statement spread by the NPC, "those terrorism actions more strain the
inner political situation of Armenia during the pre-electoral period,
making it uncontrolable and, as the experience shows, journalists
and mass media become the first victim of it." Expressing anxiety
that similar crimes are not revealed as a rule, the NPC at the same
time calls on the legal bodies to take necessary steps to reveal and
punish those guilty to keep media representatives from such terrorism
attacks. To recap, unknown people threw bottles filled with petrol
on A.Saghatelian’s car and set it on fire at about 20:00, February 8.