ArmeniaNow Gyumri’s GALA TV Company intends to appeal to the Court of Cassation against the verdict by the Civil Court of Appeals according to which it has been given one month to dismantle its broadcast equipment from the TV tower.

One of the four TV channels broadcasting in Armenia’s northern Shirak province, GALA, founded in 2005, is a rare television company in Armenia critical of the government and providing air time to representatives of various opposition factions. It is the only TV Company that largely covered the 2008 post-election opposition rallies.

Problems came fourth because of GALA’s dispute with the municipality of Gyumri which in November 2007 privatized the TV tower and demanded that GALA’s broadcast equipment be dismantled.

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