Topic: Freedom of Speech

ISTANBUL (SCF) — Kurdish filmmaker Rojhilat Aksoy has gone on trial on charges of “publicly insulting the Turkish nation and state institutions” for screening an animated film about the Armenian[...]

By Shoghik Galstian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on March 12 acknowledged that he forced the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) to resign because of what[...]

By Gayane Saribekian YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Law-enforcement authorities have launched criminal proceedings against a young political activist who has branded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan a “nation-destroying scourge” and accused him[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Security officers dragged an Armenian opposition lawmaker from the parliament podium after he strongly criticized one of his pro-government colleagues on October 26. The incident occurred during[...]

By Mania Israyelyan YEREVAN (IWPR) — Freedom of speech advocates have condemned a new law in Armenia that criminalizes “severe insult” to public figures, warning that the legislation is not only[...]