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Date: 2002-11-10
RU: Zensurgesetz gegen Terror-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- > speech of civil liberty and human rights groups in the name of the "global > anti-terror campaign" ? In fact, yes. The bill contains language against dissemination of information that hampers an anti-terrorist operation and dissemination of any information that includes any statements of people that hamper an anti-terrorist operation and/or excuse opposition to anti-terrorist operation. Russian government calls the war in Checnya an "anti-terrorist operation". Some observers think that the new law may be used against any voices against the war. > In which way is media related work of the Human Rights Network in Russia > complicated by these restrictions ? > Is this law able to supress all information about war crimes in Chechenia > or will human rights groups still be able to report about that ? By this moment human rights groups have no problems in putting this data on the Net and in some liberal papers (though there are only few). In fact, there are some bad signs. For example, each Thursday since the beginning of war a small group of Russian liberals used to conduct public anti-war meetings in the downtown Moscow. After that events in October the two last meetings were illegally prohibited by Moscow government and some activists who nevertheless were at their common place and stood there with anti-war posters were arrested by police. They were released soon afterwards and are now waiting for court decision. This accident cannot be linked directly to the new law. But it illustrates the changing situation with freedom of speech. Human Rights Network works mostly on the Net. We support a big website and used to post critical and anti-war articles on it for a long period of time. However, there's no specific legislation on Internet in Russia, and Human Rights Online (our website, http://www.hro.org ) cannot be treated as mass media source (like an offline magazine, for example) according to current legislation. There have been no examples of a website closed by the government for some political or human rights activity. A website which was sponsored by guerillas' supporters was attacked by hackers with some approval by Russian government but not by a court decision. (It's an old story, however). A website of one liberal Moscow radio station was almost closed recently because they had put an interview with terrorists on their pages. However, the site had been previously registered as mass media. After they removed that interview from their pages, the government withdrew its claims. The new law is widely quoted as a new tool that can be used against mass media. This is because the bill is not a separate law but a series of amendments to 2 existing laws - on mass media and on terrorism. In fact, in part concerning terrorism the new law says that information against anti-terrorist operation may not be distributed by mass media _or in any other way_. Internet may be counted as "some other way". We cannot predict how the new law will be implemented. In may be - or may not be - used against authors of anti-war publications. It allows wide interpretation and there's "traditional" gap between written legislation and practice in Russia. > It's interesting that in the two former concurrents of the cold war (USA, > Russia) free speech gets more and more restricted. Sad but true. It's also interesting that both peoples seem to support policies of their governments. Recent elections in the USA and public polls in Russia confirm that. Sincerely yours, Sergei Smirnov Human Rights Network, Moscow, Russia - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. Human Rights Network Russia: http://www.hro.org - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Chris published on: 2002-11-10 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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