Caucasus

Armenian author facing jail for army criticism in fiction

Posted by on Apr 23, 2012 in Armenia, Caucasus, Censorship, Europe and Central Asia, Freedom of Expression, Hovhannes Ishkhanyan, Onnik Krikorian, RSS Syndicated Posts

As Armenia prepares to celebrate its status as UNESCO World Book Capital, one young author has found himself in hot water after a penning a literary work which references the conditions faced by the country’s mainly conscript army. Threatened with p…

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