Journalists stage protest in Armenian parliament

Journalists have staged a protest in the Armenian parliament, where Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was presenting the governmental program.

The media representatives objected to the restriction of movement in the parliament building, Report informs, citing Sputnik Armenia.

Earlier the National Assembly (parliament) board decided that journalists will work in specially designated places such as a lobby of the conference hall, the press box in the adjacent park. Previously, journalists could move freely around the parliament building. Now the access to corridors leading to the offices of MPs and parliament administration staff is closed for them.

They expressed their protests on boards attached to the glasses of the press box during the prime minister's speech. The boards read 'Media have never been so unfree as with Nikol,' 'Nikol, you are no longer a journalist.' (Pashinyan was the editor of the Armenian newspaper 'Haykakan zhamanak' in the past).