MEDIA GIVEN BRIEF CONTENTS OF RA FIRST OMBUDSPERSON'S 2005<br /> REPORT<br />


MEDIA GIVEN BRIEF CONTENTS OF RA FIRST OMBUDSPERSON'S 2005
REPORT

  • 10-02-2006 14:44:00   | Armenia  |  Social
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. RA first Ombudswoman Larisa Alaverdian gave the brief contents of the 2005 report on her activity and violations of the human rights and freedoms in the country to a number of mass media. According to the February 6 statement of RA National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian, not the author but the newly elected Ombudsperson will present the report at the Parliament. The estimations and conclusions made in the report were reasoned with more characteristical examples of the cases. Particularly, among them are: - the case of Razmik Sargsian accused of murder in the army who was in a long-term hunger strike as a complaint against the unjust accusation and unjust and preconceived trial. - the criminal action brought against attorney Vahe Grigorian, the "Right Legal Service" LTD Director. The attorney protected the Yerevan Buzand street inhabitants from the state and judicial structures' obvious wilfulnesses on the cases of compulsory sale of their ownership. Exhausting all means of innerstate legal protection on two of the above-mentioned cases, V.Grigorian formed and presented complaints of his principals to the European Court of Human Rights. - the case concerning compensasion of demage to No 29/1, 29/2, 29/3 households of the Hrazdan street as a consequence of over-flows of the Hrazdan river. The Yerevan Mayor's Office, the Minister on Territorial Government and Government representatives were engaged in this case, not giving solution to fatal problem of the families living in these addresses. - the case concerning lands given with the leasehold right to families of 28 people died or become invalid during the Artsakh freedom-fight. The case is characterized by violation of the order fixed by the law and by an auction just with those schemes, the fact of usage of which the RA President affirmed, publicly censuring for using them the Yerevan Mayor while discussing the annual report. - the cases on continued complaints concerning compulsory sale of citizens' ownership connected with the building programs of the city of Yerevan. It's mentioned in the report, that one of reasons for cases of violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms is the dependence of the judicial system, which in spite of some constitutional reforms factually remained unchaged, as the RA President is to make a final decision on appointing judges and stopping judges' commissions. At the same time, the practics that has already been formed and the "judicial power - executive power" relations put under doubt productivity of numerous reforms in the judicial system. Numerous examples prove that public bodies' unscrupulous representatives' displays of bad administrative work having a systematic character, higher authorities' tolerance towards such actions bring to the human rights continuous violations of the same character and lead to deepening of those events. According to the report, the corruption gradually becomes a bigger and bigger factor in the "individual-state" relations, bringing to strengthening repulsive attitude towards the law and right among the society. "Public servicemen's low legal consciousness, not knowing of the sphere of human rights and the laws and famous international norms regulating that sphere by the state, and sometimes neglect towards them, are of system character and directly obstacle protection of both civil and political and social, economic and cultural rights," is mentioned in the RA first Ombudsperson's report. It's also mentioned in the low that "the principle of punishability isn't used towards representatives of state bodies making numerous violation of the human rights, and often those violations are masked under the patronage of higher authorities."
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