The authoritative human rights organization Freedom House has expressed concern over the criminal case filed against a Facebook user for insulting RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in a comment.
The organization wrote about this on its Facebook page, emphasizing that this is just two months after the parliament passed amendments criminalizing “serious insults” against government officials, which means a clear degradation of democratic norms in Armenia, including freedom of speech. :
“We call on the Armenian authorities to immediately end the use of this unconstitutional law criminalizing defamation,” the organization said.