{"id":271586,"date":"2016-03-11T20:10:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271586"},"modified":"2016-03-11T20:11:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:11:47","slug":"appeal-court-uphold-defense-ministry-ban-on-information-on-non-combat-army-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/11\/appeal-court-uphold-defense-ministry-ban-on-information-on-non-combat-army-deaths.html","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court Upholds Defense Ministry Ban on Information on Non-Combat Army Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tArmenia&rsquo;s Court of Appeal has upheld <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/09\/07\/all-information-concerning-non-combat-army-deaths-is-classified-according-to-defense-ministers-recent-order.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">the decision of the Defense Ministry<\/span><\/a> to ban access by relatives of deceased soldiers and civil society actors to information concerning&nbsp;non-combat fatal incidents in the country&rsquo;s armed forces.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt a hearing Friday, the court denied a request by Peace Dialogue NGO to annul the ministry&rsquo;s decision. Speaking to Epress.am after the hearing, NGO head <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/09\/16\/defense-ministers-order-has-made-armenian-army-less-accessible-to-public-expert-says.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Edgar Khachatryan<\/span><\/a> said they intended to file an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights once they&rsquo;ve exhausted all domestic legal remedies to challenge the ban.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn January, 2015, Peace Dialogue NGO filed a lawsuit against the Defense Ministry for its refusal to provide information on non-combat military deaths. Officials, however, responded to the claim only eight months later, stating that &ldquo;effective August 13, 2015, all information concerning the non-combat deaths of soldiers is classified according to a new Executive order.&rdquo; The organization subsequently filed a complaint with the Appeal Court, challenging the Defense Minister&rsquo;s executive order.&nbsp;<\/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>In January, 2015, Peace Dialogue NGO filed a lawsuit against the Defense Ministry for its refusal to provide information on non-combat military deaths. Officials, however, responded to the claim only eight&#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":271579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10329,12009,62428,18698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271586"}],"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=271586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}