The Protection of the Journalist's Sources

Authors

  • Arpine Hovhannisyan Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/BYSU:C/2023.14.1.053

Keywords:

Freedom of speech, journalist's sources, journalist, ECHR

Abstract

The Article is dedicated to the protection of the journalist's sources. It explores the main international tools and documents for protecting journalists' sources. Moreover, the Article observes the protection of the journalist's source from different dimensions: provision of material, requiring a journalist to testify in the court, searches of media organizations, and private homes of journalists' surveillance. Based on the international best practices and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the Article provides the main criteria for the protection of the journalist's sources in the Armenian legal framework.

Author Biography

Arpine Hovhannisyan, Yerevan State University

Lecturer of the Department of Civil Law of YSU Faculty of Law, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor

References

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Opinion/Protection/Article19.pdf

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Opinion/Protection/Article19.pdf

https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-57974%22]}, նաև http://www.foi.am/hy/articles/item/352/

http://www.concourt.am/armenian/decisions/common/2015/pdf/sdv-1234.pdf

https://rm.coe.int/factsheet-on-protection-of-sources-june2018-docx/16808b3dd9

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Representative on Freedom of the Media, Access to information by the media in the OSCE region: trends and recommendations. Summary of preliminary results of the survey, 30 April 2007. նաև https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Opinion/Protection/Article19.pdf

Declaration of the Committee of Ministers on the protection of journalism and safety of journalists and other media actors, Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 30 April 2014 at the 1198th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies

http://www.concourt.am/armenian/decisions/common/2015/pdf/sdv-1234.pdf:

Published

2023-09-04

How to Cite

Hovhannisyan, A. (2023). The Protection of the Journalist’s Sources. Bulletin of Yerevan University C: Jurisprudence, 14(1 (38), 53–65. https://doi.org/10.46991/BYSU:C/2023.14.1.053

Issue

Section

Civil Law