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  • 6 years ago
    • Categories: 2020

Armenia criminalizes public calls for violence

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 10:27,

YEREVAN, APRIL 15, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian parliament has adopted the government-authored bill on criminalizing “public calls for violence” and “publicly advocating violence”.

The bill passed the second reading with 97 in favor and 14 against.

Public calls for violence, or advocating and justifying violence against a person or a group of persons based on their gender, race, ethnic or social background, genetic characteristics, language, religion, way of thinking, political or other views, affiliation to a national minority, age, personal, social or any other circumstances will constitute a crime punishable by up to 1 year behind bars.  Such acts should contain clear and present danger to constitute the crime.

 

Reporting, writing by Anna Grigoryan

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan




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