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A broadcasting station in Azerbaijan enacted a ban on French songs
In connection with adoption of a bill on criminalization of denial of genocide by the Senate of France, broadcasting station Media FM in Azerbaijan removed songs performed by French singers and all the songs in the French language from the air today.
South Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Armenia
Conflicts, Society, Politics
Jan 26 2012, 18:00
Convicts in "Nubarashen" prison of Armenia went on a hunger strike
| Convicts in "Nubarashen" prison of Yerevan went on a hunger strike. The protestors sentenced to life imprisonment for murders demand reconsideration of their criminal cases. |
Jan 25 2012, 23:10; CK correspondent
Another protest action staged in Baku at the French Embassy
| Opposition activists of the Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) held a picket near the French Embassy to Azerbaijan. It was the third protest action in Baku over the past two days against the adoption by the French Senate of the bill that assumes criminalization of denial of the genocides, recognized as such by the laws of the country, including the Armenian Genocide. |
Jan 24 2012, 22:20
Baku hosts protest in front of French Embassy
| Today, about 50 persons came to the Embassy of France in Baku to protest against adoption by the French Senate - the upper house of the parliament - of the bill assuming punishment for negation of the genocides regarded as such by the law. |
Jan 24 2012, 19:00
The Senate of France adopted a bill of criminal prosecution for denial of genocide of the Armenians
| The Senate of France adopted a bill stipulating criminalization of denial of the genocides acknowledged by the laws of France, including the one of genocide of the Armenians. |
Jan 23 2012, 22:00
Moscow football fans demand to punish Caucasian who injured their comrade in Maloyaroslavets
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On January 21, several hundred fans of Moscow football clubs arrived in the city of Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga Region, where they held an action with a demand to punish the young man from the Caucasus, who had knifed their comrade friend in a mass brawl.
Russia, Armenia, South Caucasus
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Jan 20 2012, 18:00
An action of the residents who lost their flats passed off in Yerevan
| On January, 19, an action of former residents of Aram, Buizand, Ekmalyan and Saryan streets passed off in Yerevan. The people who lost their flats intend to continue protest actions until the problem is solved. |
Jan 18 2012, 22:30
Commission of French Senate rejects draft law on criminalizing denial of Armenian genocide
| The Constitutional Commission of the French Senate opposed the draft law criminalizing denial of Armenian genocide. |
Jan 17 2012, 23:50; CK correspondent
Armenia hosts action in defence of Tegut forest
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In Armenia, on January 15, the initiative groups "Let's save Trchkan Waterfalls" and the "Tegut Protection Group" organized information and ecological campaign to the Lori Region.
Armenia, South Caucasus
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Jan 17 2012, 22:30
In Turkey, Hrant Dink's killers sentenced to life imprisonment
| On January 17, the Turkish court sentenced the two persons accused of involvement in the murder of Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of the Armenian-Turkish newspaper "Agos", printed in Istanbul, to lifelong imprisonment. |
Civil Society
Interview
- Interview with Tom de Waal "I look optimistically at the problem of normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations, since societies change and people become more open for possible changes"
- Interview with Ethan Zuckerman (Berkman Center for Internet and Society)
- Levon Barsegyan (head of Journalists' Press Club "Asparez"): GALA TV Company is working, Armenian authorities slacken pressure on media
Articles
- Amnesty International: Armenia
- Religious Freedom in Armenia, 2004
- Human Rights Practices in Armenia - 2004
- Violations of Political Rights in Armenia. March-April 2004
- Saying 'two,' meaning 'party'
