Armenian organization calls for revising Law on Sects
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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.
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