RA Human Rights Defender has published legal standards on the request for information containing personal data by journalists and the obligations of state bodies in this regard.
With regard to this topic a number of media representatives and journalists posed questions to the Human Rights Defender on the legality of refusal by state bodies to provide requested information.
The analysis of presented cases showed that in order to answer to the raised questions a legal research should be carried out to specify concrete standards that should be implemented by journalists while requesting information containing personal data and by state bodies while discussing the issue of providing it.
Legal standards of RA Human Rights Defender can be found here.