Pravozashchita editor-in-chief Dmitriyevsky charged with "inciting hostility"The editor-in-chief of the “Pravosachita” newspaper is charged
On 2 September 2005 at 10.50 am at the prosecutor’s office of Nizhny Novgorod Region the managing director of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society and the editor-in-chief of the “Pravozaschita” newspaper Stanislav Dmitrievsky was criminally accused of committing the crime part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting to hostility) refers to. The charges against Dmitrievsky were preferred by a senior investigator Oleg Kirukov. After Dmitrievsky and his lawyer Yury Sidorov learned the facts stated in the Decision on instituting criminal proceedings, the investigator showed them the conclusions of the linguistic expertise carried out by a staffer of Privolzhsky regional center of legal expertise at the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation Larisa Telesenko.
Dmitrievsky stated that he didn’t agree to the conclusions of the bill of indictment and didn’t consider himself guilty. “There are no signs of inciting to ethnic, racial or any other kind of hatred in these publications. All the pathos of the articled that are incriminated against me is aimed against the policy of the leadership of the Russian Federation in Chechnya and not against any national, religious or social group”, investigator Kirukov reported what Dmitrievsky told him. Dmirievsky also claimed that he didn’t agree to the conclusions of the expertise and handed in the application to carry the second expertise by specialists of the Independent Expert and Legal Bureau (Moscow). The application is to be considered within the three-day term.
Dmitrievsky also asked to permit him make a business trip to Baku (Republic of Azerbaijan) for the period from September 6 until September 11 to meet a special rapporteur of the United Nations Hina Jilani. Kirukov turned the request down.
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Source: Russian-Chechen Information Agency
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