In the United Kingdom defamation law emerged in the XI c. even before the invention of printing. It is written in the Leviticus, ‘Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among the people’.
On November 15,2011, the RA Constitutional Court pronounced its much awaited decision in response to the application of the RA Human Rights Defender dated 13 October 2011 on the verification of the constitutionality of Article 1087.1 of the RA Civil Code.