OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE IS ANXIOUS
Support A1+!The justice initiative of Open Society Institute addressed a letter to Armenian PM, Parliament Speaker, Justice Minister, voicing concern about the amendments suggested to the Law on “Information Freedom”. The amendments were approved on February 12, 2004 by Government.
According to the letter authors, instead of passing the necessary order for putting the Law on “Information Freedom” in force, Government worked a new bill, which greatly weakens the approved law.
”The amendments offered by Justice Ministry will create wider potential for information restriction, enabling other laws to prevail over the Law on IF”, letter authors said.
They called to take their notifications into account.
During the round table discussion Yerevan Press Club Chair Boris Navasardyan informed that the letter authors didn’t manage to look through the official text of the suggested amendments.
”It’s not expedient to let the text as it is placed in the Internet site”, refusal was based this way in Government.
The bill wasn’t found in the Internet site and the representatives of social organizations had to obtain it in other way.
