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Artak Zeynalyan participates in event entitled "Creative imprisonment"

29/10/2018
Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Suren Krmoyan expressed gratitude to his counterparts for the initiative devoted to protection of the rights and interests of persons in places of imprisonment and noted that, in case of existence of effectively operating systems and projects for prison education, the positive impact would be visible for the whole society. According to the Deputy Minister, the Government has recently been implementing large-scale reforms in the sectors of criminal justice and criminal punishments. "Penitentiary institutions are undergoing radical changes.

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Fourth Round of Monitoring Report of Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan presented

26/10/2018
Deputy Minister/National Co-ordinator of the Anti-Corruption Network of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Suren Krmoyan presented the successes of Armenia in the sector of the fight against corruption and the problems existing in the sector.

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Suren Krmoyan: "The State is obliged to ensure proper conditions for education and development of children"

25/10/2018
In his opening speech, Suren Krmoyan, as Chairperson of the Council for Juvenile Justice, welcomed the organising of a workshop in such a format and emphasised its importance in terms of the commitments assumed by the State before children, that is, to ensure proper conditions for education and development of children.

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Acting Minister of Justice receives OSCE/ODIHR Needs Assessment Mission delegation

24/10/2018
The Acting Minister highly appreciated the co-operation with the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission and considered it as effective.

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Artak Zeynalyan receives Ambassador of Italy to Armenia

24/10/2018
The Ambassador expressed gratitude for the meeting and noted that the co-operation with the Ministry of Justice was among his priorities.

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Artak Zeynalyan "Armenia has one of the best law-enforcement practices in the world in terms of accessibility of information"

23/10/2018
During the meeting, the Acting Minister and the OSCE Representative discussed the state of freedom of speech in Armenia, as well as a number of issues related to the strengthening of guarantees defined for the right of freedom of expression and the right to information.

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Discussion devoted to reforms in prison healthcare was held

23/10/2018
During the meeting, draft Decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia No 825-N of 26 May 2006 and the drafts of the sanitary and epidemiological guidelines were presented to the participants, and the discussions were devoted to the draft Decision and the draft guidelines.

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OSCE to support Armenia in introducing a more effective system of investigation of corruption crimes

22/10/2018
In particular, Suren Krmoyan talked about the persistence of the authorities in the fight against corruption due to the new political realities in Armenia and the unconditional support of citizens to implementation of the anti-corruption programmes being implemented by the Government.

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Draft Law "On making amendments and supplements to the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On compulsory enforcement of judicial acts"" and the drafts of related laws discussed

22/10/2018
Representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Judicial Council, the Compulsory Enforcement Service, the Police, the State Revenue Committee, the State Committee of Real Estate Cadastre, the Central Bank of Armenia and the Union of Banks of Armenia, academic lawyers and advocates, as well as judges of the Court of Cassation, the Civil Court of Appeal, the First Instance Court of General Jurisdiction and the Administrative Court of the city of Yerevan participated in the discussion.

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Delegation led by Suren Krmoyan participates in conference on “Strengthening transparency and accountability to ensure integrity: united against corruption”

19/10/2018
During the conference, Deputy Minister Krmoyan delivered a speech in which, among a number of issues, he also touched upon the successes that Armenia has recorded in the fight against corruption, noting that ensuring considerable progress was made possible as a result of the relevant legislative reforms, that is, the criminalisation of illicit enrichment, the introduction of the institution of declaration of conflicts of interest, as well as the introduction of a number of electronic toolkits in the public administration system.

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Process of administrative amnesty is over

18/10/2018
Pursuant to part 1 of Article 2 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On amnesty of fines applied for a number of administrative offences" having entered into force from 26 July 2018, the Service did not grant amnesty with regard to the proceedings when that obligation was related to such unlawful conduct of persons committing a crime, which contained prima facie elements of a crime, and in relation to that, criminal proceedings had been conducted, as a result of which there was a judicial act of conviction having entered into force, or the proceedings of the criminal case had been terminated on a non-acquittal ground.

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