Websites of Chechen human rights organizations to be shut downInternet informational resources of the Chechen Committee for National Salvation (ChKNS) and the Council of Non-governmental Organisations (SNO) located on a server owned by the Mastak.Ru provider (http://www.mastak.ru) will be shut down as of January 24. The organizations learned this news from an email sent to them on January 21 by Mastak.Ru representative Galina Borisova.
“Unfortunately, we have to announce that it is not possible for us to provide you further with web-hosting services,” the message writes. “Our company always strives to stay clear of politics, while your resource is of anti-Russian character, which seriously complicates our work.”
ChKNS’s website (http://www.savechechnya.org) has been located on the Mastak.Ru server since January 2002, the SNO website (http://www.ngochechnya.org) since September 2002.
ChKNS chairman Ruslan Badalov rejects the allegations of the “anti-Russian character” of his organization’s activities. “In our work we have never attempted to engage in such activities, we always simply reported the truth about what was going on,” he claims.
“Not in a single one of our statements or documents has there been a single word aimed against Russia. On the contrary, we informed the Russian public about facts they hadn’t known about,” says Ruslan Badalov.
By Tamerlan Aliyev for the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations. (D/T) |
