"NO ONE HAS A RIGHT TO POKE HIS HAND INTO THE SPHERE"

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05:17 pm | February 26, 2010

Politics

Advocate Ara Zohrabyan has appealed to the RA Prosecutor’s Office with
a demand to annul the decision of the Erebuni Investigative Division.

"This is the first time an attempt has been made to seize an advocate’s
computer in Armenia. If we close an eye to the incident they will
later attempt to intrude into our "inner kitchen."

"Attorney-client" relations must be confidential and no one has a
right to poke his nose into the sphere," Ara Zohrabyan said today in
the Chamber of Advocates.

The advocate is determined to go to the law if the decision is not
quashed.

"I am going to appeal to all instances including the Constitutional
Court and European Court of Human Rights as the incident might become
a precedent for further intrusion into advocates’ lives."

The police made an attempt to seize the advocate’s computer after
charges were filled against businessman Saribek Sukiasian. After
compiling information and printing it on his computer the advocate
presented the documents to the Sukiasians.

"My computer is by no means connected to the crime. I gave the
material to the investigators as well so that they would not seize my
computer. Inviolability of "attorney-client" relations and privacy of
consultations are guaranteed by a number of treaties and no one has a
right to intervene with an advocate’s activity," declared the advocate.