Armenian NGOs protest outside parliament against media bill

Aravot, Yerevan
3 Jul 07

Text of unattributed report by Armenian newspaper Aravot on 3 July
headlined "No to lawlessness"

While the National Assembly was discussing the bill threatening to
terminate the broadcasting of Radio Liberty in its second reading
yesterday, a number of NGOs organized a protest. The protest began on
Freedom Square and continued at the entrance to the parliament.

The participants in the protest, who held posters saying "No to
lawlessness, no to disorder", tied their mouths with white cloths as a
sign of protest. The protesters hung a poster saying "Independent
dependents" on the banisters surrounding the parliament. The names of
79 MPs, who voted on Friday [29 June] for the amendments to the laws
"On TV and radio" and "On the state tax", were written on the poster.
It is expected that the law will be adopted in its second reading today.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS