Speeches

Speech of the RA Human Rights Defender Armen Harutyunyan
06/09/09

On June 9 the Civilitas foundation organized a forum on “the Right to Elect”. The main speakers of the forum were  President of the Civilitas Board Vartan Oskanian and  RA Human Rights Defender Armen Harutyunyan. Some parts of the Defender’s speech are presented below. 1. We are living in an epoch when materialistic manifestations reveal the spiritual incapability of the century, when the way of thinking is exclusively preconditioned by the aspiration for the power and success. However, in my judgment, the very absence of the spiritual values and more >

RA Ombudsman’s Message on the Occasion of the International Day of Human Rights
12/12/08

Today it is possible to talk about two great but extremely different revolutions of the past twentieth century: the bolshevist revolution and ever-continuing revolution of human rights. The first one, fortunately, came to an end.  The second revolution – the revolution of human rights - proceeds, and although does not always win, constantly bears a hope on achievement at least some of its goals. Adopting the Declaration took place due to the consensus that had not happened in history before and which was more >

The Statement of the Human Rights Defender on the Monitoring of Legal Processes
12/12/08

1.  The monitoring of these legal processes revealed that: • The evidential base of the prosecutive party is not convincing.• The courts always support the approaches of the prosecutive party. 2. My inner conviction coincides with the approaches of the defense party, and this is reasonable, since more >

The questions discussed by the RA Human Rights Defender during the press-conference
09/26/07

1. Fair trial According to the judgment adopted by the European Court on Human Rights on 28.06.2007 the Government of the Republic of Armenia is to pay to Mr. Misha Harutyunyan 4000 EUR and to punish the guilty persons. At the same time the European Court emphasizes that the Armenian courts admitted the coercion facts noting that they were applied by the police officers at the military police station for the purpose of ensuring disclosure of the truth, a fact that  the European Court considered at least unacceptable.  Mr. Lernik Atayan, the judge of Syunik region, who sentenced Mr. Misha Harutyunyan, was called to more >