{"id":505,"date":"2014-07-22T12:40:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=505"},"modified":"2014-07-23T12:50:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:50:45","slug":"osce-representative-concerned-about-armenia-court-decision-forcing-media-outlets-to-disclose-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"OSCE representative concerned about Armenia court decision forcing media outlets to disclose sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">VIENNA, 22 July 2014 \u2013 OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovi\u0107 today expressed concern about a court ruling in Armenia that forces media outlets to disclose their sources of information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 26 June the Administrative Court of the Kentron and Nork-Marash districts in Yerevan ruled that two media outlets, the Hraparak newspaper and Ilur.am news portal, should disclose their sources as part of the criminal investigation involving a high-level police official of the Shirak region.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-506\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Covcas-OSCE-Media-representative-Mijatovic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-506\" src=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Covcas-OSCE-Media-representative-Mijatovic-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107 at the conference on shaping policies to advance media freedom on the Internet, Vienna, 14 February 2013. (Colin Peters) \" width=\"247\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Covcas-OSCE-Media-representative-Mijatovic-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Covcas-OSCE-Media-representative-Mijatovic.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107 at the conference on shaping policies to advance media freedom on the Internet, Vienna, 14 February 2013. (Colin Peters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am concerned that this ruling might have a chilling effect on media as it could thwart reporting on issues of public interest,\u201d Mijatovi\u0107 said. \u201cThe need for journalists\u2019 professional confidentiality with public and private sources of information must be acknowledged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She noted that the right of journalists to protect the identity of sources is a key principle of investigative journalism and has repeatedly been declared as a basic requirement for freedom of expression by the OSCE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media observes media developments in all 57 OSCE participating States. She provides early warning on violations of freedom of expression and media freedom and promotes full compliance with OSCE media freedom commitments. Learn more at <a title=\"OSCE Freedom of media\" href=\"www.osce.org\/fom\" target=\"_blank\">www.osce.org\/fom<\/a>, Twitter: <a title=\"OSCE Freedom of media Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OSCE_RFoM\" target=\"_blank\">@OSCE_RFoM<\/a> and on <a title=\"OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media fb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/osce.rfom\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/osce.rfom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE VIENNA, 22 July 2014 \u2013 OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovi\u0107 today expressed concern about <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=505\" title=\"OSCE representative concerned about Armenia court decision forcing media outlets to disclose sources\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-armenia-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}