VANADZOR. – Authorized representatives of Helsinki Civil Assembly Vanadzor Office Artak Zeynalyan and Arayik Ghazaryan turned to the Constitutional Court on Wednesday for recognizing invalid certain points of the law on State secret.

The complaint certifies that executive and legislative bodies are authorized not to provide certain confidential information, at the same time they can posses it according to the law on State and Service secret.

Representatives turned to the Court based on the note by the Armenian MOD, in response to Helsinkyan Civil Assembly Vanadzor Office request.

The organization asked for information on how many servicemen died in 2009 in Armed Forces, and their personal data from the Ministry on February 10 last year. However, in response to the request, the Ministry on February 20 last year stated that information is unavailable, referring to the law.

The organization filed a lawsuit against the Ministry’s right not to provide information in the Administrative Court. Courts rejected the file and complaints by referring to the law and regulations of State secret.