The National Press Club has made a statement concerning the court’s decision sentencing opposition activist Nicol Pashinyan to seven years of imprisonment. “The accusation of provoking public disorders is nothing else but the right of a journalist’s conscious and independent opinion, receiving and spreading ideologies and being loyal to those ideologies provided by the 19th resolution of Human Rights, for which Nicol Pashinyan has to pay with seven years of imprisonment. The National Press Club announces that this decision on part of the court has the goal to scare journalists to be frightened in their job and follow self-censorship,” writes the announcement of the National Press Club.
