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On December 4, 2023, the Freedom of Information Center of Armenia (FOICA) initiated legal proceedings by filing a lawsuit to compel the "Civil Contract" party to disclose information.
The Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia confirmed the fact of violation of the Freedom of Information Center's right to receive information by the Yerevan Municipality.
Media Defence has today filed a case at the Strasbourg court on behalf of four Armenian citizens following the bombing of the town of Martuni by Azerbaijani forces during the recent armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. The applicants - three journalists who were injured and the brother of a journalist fixer who was killed - allege that as a result of this attack their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights were violated by Azerbaijan.

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52. The FOICA vs The RA Road Police

On May 22, 2015 the FOICA submitted a written information request to the RA Road Police asking to provide information on video devices and speedometers.

TP didn’t provide any answer to FOICA’s request. On June 26, 2015, FOICA applied to the RA Administrative Court asking to recognize the actions or idleness of the RA Road Police as unlawful, since the body didn’t answer to the FOICA’s request during the timeframe defined by the law on “Freedom of Information”, as well as FOICA asked to oblige the RP  to provide within the five days the information that FOICA asked on May 22, 2015.

After this when FOICA had already applied to the court, RP provided the answer to the request. Thus, FOICA withdrew the claim on obliging to provide information.

The first court session took place on September 15, 2015. The next court hearing took place on October 12. The court decided to end the preliminary court hearing, and the case went to the trial phase. On December 22, 2015. the RA Administrative Court publicized its decision, according to which satisfied the FOICA’s claim and recognized the inaction of RA Road Police as unlawful.

As a result of the court case, FOICA applied to the RA Administrative Court once again for the compensation of damages caused by the unlawful inaction. On November 24, 2017, the RA Administrative Court obliged the RA Road Police to compensate the expenses of FOICA by paying 50000 AMD.

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