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On 1 July the legal proceedings based on the lawsuit issued by “Dundee Precious Metals Kapan” (earlier “Deno Gold Mining Company”) against public activist Yeghia Nersissian was in progress. The defenders of Yeghia Nersissian, barristers Lusine Hakobyan and Tigran Yegoryan filed a motion about the need to question eye witnesses Mariam Sukhudyan and Gevorg Safaryan.
The proceedings have been stretching for already several months. The company accuses the activists of defamation under Article 1087 (1) of the Civil Code of Armenia. Reminder: The company claims that on 14 December 2012, during a meeting with the Armenian community in the USA, Mr. Nerssesian announced that according to information available to him the Deno Gold Mining Company applied electric shock to miners.
The position of the defense is as follows: “First of all, the facts may not comply with the reality and not meet to the principles of reasonable proclamation. While our legislation says for a public statement not to be considered a slander, it should have either factual evidence or be within the ranges of reasonable proclamation. Then we think that the plaintiff can’t demand the refutation of Yeghia Nersissian’s statement, as Youtube is not a mass media, and eventually, the company missed the term designed for issuing a claim: Yeghia Nerssisian’s speech appeared on Youtube on 14 December 2012, while the claim was issued late in January 2013, i.e. in over a month, but the court admitted the claim,” Lusine Hakobyan said.
July 02, 2013 at 11:49