Publication of Chechen newspaper blocked by authorities(CJES Press Release) – The authorities are continuing to harass the Chechen Society newspaper. This week the Ingush printing house refused to print issues of the paper after its director Souleiman Kostoyev was interrogated by the Ingush Interior Ministry.
Despite his insistence that the printing house has all the necessary and required documents, including the paper's registration and contract, he was asked to stop printing it. This "recommendation“ was based on instructions from the local authorities.
So Kostoyev was forced to sign a statement that printing of this issue of the newspaper would be suspended.
The situation is further complicated by the fact that no suitable printing house exists either in Chechnya or in Ingushetia.
Timur Aliyev, editor of the Chechen Society, had also been summoned to the ministry earlier where he was "asked" to stop publishing the paper because officials were not satisfied with the content of the articles.
The newspaper has been sharply сritical of the situation in Chechnya, i.e. human rights violations, corruption, mop-up operations and kidnappings, as well as of the Chechen leadership and federal commanders.
Source: Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations. Translated by Prague Watchdog. (H/E,T) RELATED ARTICLES:
· Back copies of the Chechen Society newspaper
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