Representative of the RA NSS stated that he would not obey the court ruling
16:50, July 11, 2016 | News, Own news | J. B. Ozkirisyan (Shant Voskerchyan)
As reported before, on July 6, 2016, the RA Administrative Court resumed examination of the claim of Jean Baptist Ozkirisyan (Shant Voskerchyan) v. the RA National Security Service. Note that by this claim, the plaintiff required declaring unlawful the actions of the RA National Security Service, under which the plaintiff’s data were included in the databank of persona non grata in the RA and to annul the refusal to admit the administrative complaint by the letter of October 2, 2015.
At the court hearing, a strange incident occurred, which, regretfully, did not receive proper attention on the part of the Court.
After the negative response to the question of the plaintiff’s representative as to submitting to the Court the information obtained through the responsive and intelligence actions, which served as a basis for banning J. B. Ozkirisyan’s entry to the Republic of Armenia, the Court stated that the burden of proof was borne by the administrative agency and tried to find out whether the information would be provided if a relevant court ruling was issued; in response to this question, the representative of the RA NSS said that the requested information constituted a state secret and could not be submitted to the court.
Instead of insisting that the information was required for making an impartial ruling, the presiding judge withdrew his requirement and gave in to the position of the representative of the NSS.
Hence, the representative of the NSS, in fact, publicly stated that the institution he represented did not obey the RA judicial authorities and the information considered secret for the public at large was secret for the court as well.
We hereby state that as long as we have agencies in the Republic of Armenia that do not obey the RA courts of law, no constitution can save us.