17/12/2018 12:20
Acting justice minister describes NSS-PM conversation wiretapping as ‘blackmailing, persecution, extortion’
The minister of justice has not given any instruction to any judge during the activity of the current government, acting defense minister Artak Zeynalyan told the reporters today, asked whether they succeeded to form independent judicial system, if to consider the conversation between the NSS director and the acting PM which imply that the latter gives instructions to judicial system.
“I do not want to discuss the wiretapped conversations. This was done with concrete purpose and their dosed publication was aimed at blackmailing, extortion, persecution. If we give in to temptation and discuss the content we will become tools in the hands of people who made encroachments against privacy right of the people,” Zeynalyan said.