{"id":163662,"date":"2012-02-22T17:12:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T13:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=163662"},"modified":"2012-02-22T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T13:14:15","slug":"armenian-human-rights-group-displeased-with-courts-certification-and-law-on-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/22\/armenian-human-rights-group-displeased-with-courts-certification-and-law-on-attorneys.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Human Rights Group Displeased with Courts, Certification and Law on Attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helsinki Association for Human Rights President Mikael Danielyan, at a press conference in Yerevan launching the organization&#8217;s latest <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/22\/prisoners-of-conscience-biased-courts-corrupt-army-report-on-human-rights-violations-in-armenia.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">human rights report<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, said that he is amazed that several non-governmental organizations have participated in the certification announced by Armenia&#8217;s Justice Ministry by which certified individuals can carry out observer missions in the upcoming parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s regretful that many NGOs applied to get certified. It&#8217;s interesting, if they&#8217;re certified, are they human rights defenders or not; will they again rush to get that certification?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>The human rights campaigner also criticized the adopted amendment to the law on attorneys with which only lawyers (and not, for example, human rights defenders) can provide legal advice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an attack first on those who don&#8217;t have the means to hire an attorney,&#8221; said Danielyan.<\/p>\n<p>During presentation of the organization&#8217;s 2011 report on human rights, Helsinki Association attorney Nina Karapetyants raised the issue of Armenia&#8217;s judicial system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Cassation Court no longer exists for Armenian citizens \u2014 it&#8217;s a formality. In the last year, cases aren&#8217;t even admitted by the court. The saddest part is that the Appeals Court is also vanishing. Today, the Appeal Court hears cases according to Cassation Court procedure: the defense has no opportunity to speak. The plaintiff reads his complaint, the defendant gives its response and the court moves to issue a ruling,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helsinki Association for Human Rights President Mikael Danielyan, at a press conference in Yerevan launching the organization&#8217;s latest&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[38496,13969,27174,22738,18952,22737],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}