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Police accused of killing anti-Kremlin website chief



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Published Date: 01 September 2008
By Ethan McNern
THE owner of an opposition internet news site in Russia's troubled Ingushetia region was shot dead yesterday after being detained by police, it has been claimed.
Magomed Yevloyev is one of the most high-profile journalists killed in Russia since investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead outside her Moscow home in 2006, provoking condemnation of Russia's record on media freedom.

Mr Yevloyev, owner of the www.Ingushetiya.ru website, was a vocal critic of the region's Kremlin-backed administration, which critics accuse of crushing free speech. A lawyer for the site – which survived repeated official attempts to close it down – claimed police met Mr Yevloyev at Ingushetia's airport and drove him off before shooting him in the head and throwing him from the car outside a hospital.





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  • Last Updated: 31 August 2008 10:09 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Russia
 
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Vote UKIP,

01/09/2008 08:03:34
You think we live in a free country?

Just wait until the Lisbon Treaty is passed.

"It also mentions how a free press will disappear after the Reform Treaty has been signed, quoting an EU edict, backed up by the ECJ, that states that it will be illegal to criticize the EU in the future."
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Selgovae,

Scottish Borders 01/09/2008 10:34:46
Nice try, but that's a bit desperate! During the Irish campaign against the Lisbon Treaty, the treaty was accused of eroding various rights from disallowing the banning of abortion to disallowing military neutrality. But I don't recall it being accused of eroding freedom of speech or the press.

Your quote I think comes from Klaus Heeger, and I think it refers to a case of an EU employee being fired for publishing a book criticizing the EU. The European court ruling allowed the dismissal, one of its reasons being that English law already allowed such treatment. The person in question was British and he used a case of English blasphemy law as part of his defense.

You might be better sticking to the straight banana argument.



 

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