«Narodnaya Volia» litigates Ministry of Information warning :: Charter'97 :: News

The hearing of the suit brought by the publishing house of the “Narodnaya Volia” newspaper against the Ministry of Information on recognizance the warning towards the newspaper illegal has started today in the Supreme Administrative Court (Valadarskaga Street - 8).

The suit refers to the warning on article 5 of the press law that the newspaper received April 13 for two March publications. The first article “Virtual was of granddaughter against grandmother” was printed March 3. The Ministry of Information considered that the author of the publication (A. Sivy) had published the court material of the proceedings that had not yet been completed without the judge’s permit. March 31, the newspaper published “Appeal to soldiers-internationalists” of A. Volchak, the leader of the “Defenders of Homeland” movement in the honor of Yury Zakharanka. The Ministry of Information regarded the publication as the distribution of information on behalf of a non-registered association, the BAJ reminds.