Today, the hearing impaired young people of the social group “The Voice of Silence” sent an open letter to the chairman of National Commission for Television and Radio of Armenia (NCTR) Grigor Amalyan. The authors of the letter are concerned with the decision of NCTR made during the TV broadcast licesnsing contest on December 16, according to which “ALM” TV channel will stop broadcasting.
The letter particularly states that starting from January 20, after the broadcasting on “ALM” TV is stopped, the hearing impaired in Armenia will be deprived of getting information on the events in Armenia and in the world on their native language (gestures’ language). Though some TV channels provide the news blocks with a running-line but that does not satisfy their needs.
“We demand not to ignore the 3,500 hearing impaired RA citizens’ rights to be informed and to immediately take measures to provide gestures’ interpretation during the news broadcasts starting from January 20.”
The copies of the letter are addressed to the chairman of the Council of the RA Public TV and Radio Aleksan Harutyunyan, the Human Rights Defender in Armenia (Ombudsman) Armen Harutyunyan and the owner of “ALM” Holding Tigran Karapetyan.
Today, the hearing impaired young people of the social group “The Voice of Silence” sent an open letter to the chairman of National Commission for Television and Radio of Armenia (NCTR) Grigor Amalyan. The authors of the letter are concerned with the decision of NCTR made during the TV broadcast licesnsing contest on December 16, according to which “ALM” TV channel will stop broadcasting.
The letter particularly states that starting from January 20, after the broadcasting on “ALM” TV is stopped, the hearing impaired in Armenia will be deprived of getting information on the events in Armenia and in the world on their native language (gestures’ language). Though some TV channels provide the news blocks with a running-line but that does not satisfy their needs.
“We demand not to ignore the 3,500 hearing impaired RA citizens’ rights to be informed and to immediately take measures to provide gestures’ interpretation during the news broadcasts starting from January 20.”
The copies of the letter are addressed to the chairman of the Council of the RA Public TV and Radio Aleksan Harutyunyan, the Human Rights Defender in Armenia (Ombudsman) Armen Harutyunyan and the owner of “ALM” Holding Tigran Karapetyan.
The open letter is signed by 16 members of the social group “The Voice of Silence”.
The full text of the letter can be found in Armenian here.
For more information about this initiative in English, please click here.
Source` JNews.am