{"id":32861,"date":"2022-05-20T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/?p=32861"},"modified":"2022-05-24T20:01:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:01:44","slug":"the-blurred-line-between-free-speech-and-insults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/in-the-library\/2022\/05\/20\/32861\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blurred Line Between Free Speech And Insults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW201684836 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW201684836 BCX0\">&#8220;Probably the majority of society has already acquired immunity and no longer understands where free speech ends, what is simply an insult, where incitement and initiation to hostility begins, which will lead to violence,&#8221; said Vardine Grigoryan, HCAV election program coordinator.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW201684836 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-g6ttrv09_zg\" class=\"arve\">\n<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n<div style=\"aspect-ratio:500\/281\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.200000%\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-g6ttrv09_zg\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/G6TTRv09_zg?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/G6TTRv09_zg?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.am\\\/en\\\/in-the-library\\\/2022\\\/05\\\/20\\\/32861\\\/#arve-youtube-g6ttrv09_zg\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/G6TTRv09_zg?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The article on inciting national, racial, or religious enmity of the RA Criminal Code is currently applied in connection with two cases. One to human rights activist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/a\/31396356.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sashik Sultanyan<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, the other to producer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/2022\/05\/18\/grigoryan_tovmasyan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Armen Grigoryan<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Vardine Grigoryan considers this strange.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">According to her, in the case of Armen Grigoryan, the speech was bad and shouldn&#8217;t have been spoken, but there is no discussion about the expediency of detention for that case.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And Vardine Grigoryan describes the case of human rights activist Sashik Sultanyan as absurd. Sashik Sultanyan spoke about cases of discrimination against Yezidis in the Republic of Armenia and described it as ethnic hostility.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gegham Vardanyan<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:3,&quot;335551620&quot;:3,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Probably the majority of society has already acquired immunity and no longer understands where free speech ends, what is simply an insult, where incitement and initiation to hostility begins, which will lead to violence,&#8221; said Vardine Grigoryan, HCAV election program coordinator.&nbsp; The article on inciting national, racial, or religious enmity of the RA Criminal Code<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/in-the-library\/2022\/05\/20\/32861\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-library","author_posts-gegham-vardanyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32874,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32861\/revisions\/32874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}