The Chisinau Court of Appeals ruled in favor of researcher Mihai Tasca, doctor of history and law, in the case versus the Ministry of Justice, which was accused of violating the right to information. Mihai Tasca has told Info-Prim Neo that on March 18, 2008 he submitted an application to the Ministry of Justice, seeking access to the files of the political parties. The historians intended to carry out a study about the activism of the citizens in election campaigns. On April 15, the Ministry rejected the application, saying that it did not contain sufficient details for identifying the information. On April 22, the researcher filed another application. Mihai Tasca says he also had a discussion on this subject with a Ministry official. The law on the access to information provides for the possibility of making an oral request, the historian says. After the second refusal, the researcher sued the Ministry of Justice to the Court of Appeal on June 17. The court ordered that the Ministry offers Mihai Trasca the filed he asked for. The historian considers that the court’s decision is ‘courageous’. The judgment was passed on September 30. It can be appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice within 15 days. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, the Ministry’s representative in court Olesea Perean said that the Ministry of Justice will decide whether to appeal the judgment after it receives the motivated decision of the Court of Appeals. Earlier, Mihai Trasca won two cases regarding the denial of access to information opened against the Security and Information Service, which denied access to its archive.