Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Opposition Journalists Detained on Extremism Charges

In Bashkiria, Russia, four persons involved in the activity of Bashkir opposition web site “Ufa-Gub” were detained on “extremist activities” charges. Specifically, they were accused of having published on the site excerpts from a third-party author’s book, highly critical towards current Bashkir leadership. Investigators maintain that the excerpts “called to extremist actions.” Earlier the site itself was banned by a court order, but simply moved to a non-Russian domain.

http://lenta.ru/news/2009/08/04/charge/ (Russ.)
http://gazeta.ru/politics/2009/08/04_a_3231850.shtml (Russ.)

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