tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331396433182434044.post7304321741024827148..comments2023-09-24T12:47:57.051+01:00Comments on Unzipped: Armenian government defeated by A1+. Freedom of expression wins!artmikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207317653711435445noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331396433182434044.post-19798032511419839962008-11-06T23:44:00.000+00:002008-11-06T23:44:00.000+00:00Closed TV Gets Government Payout Acting on a recen...<A HREF="http://azatutyun.eu/armeniareport/report/en/2008/11/C02E02DE-15C9-49BC-9927-89FB5C632A7B.ASP" REL="nofollow">Closed TV Gets Government Payout</A> <BR/><BR/>Acting on a recent verdict by the European Court of Human Rights, the Armenian government approved on Thursday payment of 30,000 euros ($39,000) in damages to an independent television station that was controversially pulled off the air in 2002. [...]<BR/><BR/>“I can not consider the compensation ordered by the European court to be full because the losses that we have incurred during all these years have been much greater,” Mesrop Movsesian, the A1+ owner and chief executive, told RFE/RL. <BR/><BR/>“But I wouldn’t want to accentuate on the financial aspect of the matter because the restoration of my rights in the Republic of Armenia is more important to me,” said Movsesian. He said A1+, which has remained afloat by publishing an online journal and producing programs for regional broadcasters, still hopes to return to the airwaves. <BR/><BR/>These hopes were dealt a serious blow in September when the Armenian parliament approved government-drafted legal amendments that froze the holding of fresh tenders for frequencies until July 2010. The government claimed that the measure is necessary for expediting Armenia’s planned transition to mandatory digital broadcasting by 2012. <BR/><BR/>But government critics believe its real purpose is to fend off renewed Western pressure for the reopening of A1+. In a June resolution, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) urged Armenia to "ensure an open, fair and transparent licensing procedure" and allow A1+ to apply for a new license.artmikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11207317653711435445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331396433182434044.post-46633327454114308342008-06-24T15:38:00.000+01:002008-06-24T15:38:00.000+01:00PACE demands from the Armenian authorities to gran...<A HREF="http://unzipped.blogspot.com/2008/06/pace-demands-from-armenian-authorities.html" REL="nofollow">PACE demands from the Armenian authorities to grant a broadcasting licence to A1+ TV station without further delay</A>artmikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11207317653711435445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331396433182434044.post-77891264345790705982008-06-19T22:04:00.000+01:002008-06-19T22:04:00.000+01:00Europeans sucks like no one else.Now the governmen...Europeans sucks like no one else.<BR/>Now the government know that for a symbolic sum of 30.000 Euros they can ban any channel they dont like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331396433182434044.post-65794222563064258432008-06-19T11:29:00.000+01:002008-06-19T11:29:00.000+01:00The court didn't order the government to put A1+ b...The court didn't order the government to put A1+ back in the air, because it cannot order that. By its statutes or mandate or whatever you'd call it, the ECHR can only award financial compensation to the "winning" side. It can't order a government to take some other action. So in fact, the ECHR did as much as it is allowed to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com