Armenian organization calls for revising Law on Sects

tert.am
20:03 – 08.12.12

An Armenian alliance of NGOs has called for joint efforts towards
combating harmful sects.

At a news conference on Saturday, President of the One Nation Alliance
Gor Tamazyan, urged the government to reconsider its approaches to
non-political sects, otherwise predicting a slimming of the budget due
to Jehovah’s Witnesses winning cases against Armenia at the European
Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

`That organization is a totalitarian sect and contains anti-national
elements,’ he said, noting that a foreign-funded organization can
never serve national interests.

Commenting on the recent ECtHR lawsuit that saw Jehovah’s Witnesses
evading the military win a case against the Republic of Armenia,
Tamazyan said that deserters’ success in the European Court sets a bad
precedent to others.