CEC rejects order for journalist accreditation
The RA Central Electoral Commission today declared its own demands for the order of journalists' accreditation for providing coverage of the elections as invalid.
According to that order, the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia will allow coverage of the elections and the accreditation of journalists who
-haven't been recognized as unable to work or are fully able to work,
-haven't been sentenced for intentionally committing a crime,
-the sentencing has been fulfilled or has been removed by the order prescribed by the law,
-there hasn't been any information regarding the activities of electoral commissions (official persons) that don't correspond to reality (which has been confirmed by the court's verdict).
"A1+" raised the issue in the article "CEC Gathering Journalists?" printed in the March 5 edition, in which Head of the "Committee in Defense of the Freedom of Speech", journalist, publicist Ashot Melikyan had said that order contradicted the law and the Constitution.
"A1+"'s journalist at the Central Electoral Commission reported that President of the Commission Tigran Mukuchyan had said the following in his comments on the decision recognizing the demands of the order for journalists' accreditation as invalid: "We have never had the desire to restrict journalists' activities and create additional obstacles."
