Azerbaijan, Baku, 8 May / corr Trend K.Zarbaliyeva / The complaint regarding judgment on execution of sentence to cancel the registration of the Election Monitoring Center (EMC) was denied.
On 27 May Khatai District Court considered the complaint by the Center.
On 14 May according to appeal of Head Registration and Notary Department of the Ministry of Justice, Khatai District Court made a judgment cancelling the registration of the organization.
EMC first presented founders' documents to the Ministry of Justice on 14 March 2006. The Ministry did not register the organization attributing it to various technical shortcomings. At last, the sixth attempt of EMC turned out to be successful in February 2008.
The Ministry of Justice attributes its decision to cancel the registration to the fact that the founders' documents of the organization give vague information about the founders and the Ministry were not informed of the change in the legal address of the organization, and the organization also did not include the information about its representations located in eight Azerbaijani cities into the state register.
The co-founder of the organization Anar Mammadli said that the above mentioned causes given by the ministry holds no grounds to consider EMC registration invalid.
A ban was imposed on Center's access to Internet. The EMC plans to appeal to the Ministry of Communications & IT.
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