RCIA web page has been erasedOn 11 September 2005, hackers attacked the web page of the Russian-Chechen Information Agency. All the database of this Internet media outlet was destroyed at the server of the provider. It is the first time when the web page of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society has been destroyed. As of the present moment, specialists of the RCFS are trying to restore the web page of the agency.
The web page was destroyed after all the materials of the criminal case commenced by the prosecutorship of Nizhny Novgorod Region against the editor-in-chief of the “Pravozaschita” newspaper were put on it. Yesterday the texts of the conclusions made by the linguistic expert were published on the web page. That expert stated in her conclusions that appeals made by Maskhadov and Zakaev and published in the “Pravozaschita” newspaper have to be classified as “inciting to animosity on ethnic, religious or social signs” whereas both appeals called to peaceful reconciliation to the armed conflict in Chechnya and were full of tough critics of Putin’s regime. The RCFS consider these conclusions as absurd and politically motivated.
The day before yesterday the editors of the RCIA Stanislav Dmitirevsky and Oksana Chelysheva were threatened with death when unidentified people glued slanderous leaflets to the walls and doors in the house where Dmitirevsky lives. On September 2, 2005 the prosecutorship charged Dmitrievsky with “incitement to animosity” according to part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Some time before that the tax inspection began unauthorized withdrawing of the funds from the bank accounts of the RCFS whereas the Main Registration Department at the Ministry of Justice brought a suit aimed at closing the organization down.
The Russian-Chechen Information Agency is a project run by the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society that is financially backed by the European Commission and the National Endowment for Democracy Foundation (the USA). It is aimed at information covering the situation with human rights in the area of the Chechen conflict.
(The text was not edited by Prague Watchdog).
Source: Russian-Chechen Information Agency (B) |
