Editor unjustifiably restrained for Chechnya articles, caused a ‘chilling effect’
by Emil Weber
The conviction of a Russian editor for inciting enmity through the dissemination of two articles amounted to freedom of expression violation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided on Tuesday. The articles were supposedly written by Chechen leaders.
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Mr. Stanislav M. Dmitriyevskiy, editor in chief of the monthly newspaper “Pravo-Zashchita” (Protection of Rights) based in Nizhny Novgorod is also the director of the human rights non-governmental monitoring organisation, the “Russian-Chechen Friendship Society”. In early 2004 he republished two articles in his small regional newspaper which were taken from the website Chechenpress.
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