12 August 2008, 22:39
"Ingushetia.Ru" intends to ignore the court ruling on closing the website
The Moscow City Court has upheld the ruling of the Kuntsevo District Court on illegality of the activities of the website "Ingushetia.Ru". Rosa Malsagova, editor-in-chief of the website, who is now in Paris, where she applied for political shelter to French authorities, has stated that the "Ingushetia.Ru" website will go on despite the court ruling.
The message placed on an official website of Moscow's Prosecutor's Office runs that the ruling of the Kuntsevo District Court of Moscow on illegal activities of the website "Ingushetia.Ru" has entered its legal force. The complaint of editor-in-chief Rosa Malsagova that the ruling was illegitimate, since no editorial board members and other figurants were not attracted to the case, was rejected.
Lawyer Musa Pliev said that he will file a supervisory complaint against the decision of the Moscow City Court. "We start to prepare documents for lodging a complaint to the European Court for Human Rights on this case," Mr Pliev said.
Rosa Malsagova is now in France, where she was forced to emigrate from Russia because, as she said, of threats and prosecutions.
Today, the website has published Ms Malsagova's statement, where she says that she will not execute the court ruling, since she thinks that only she herself as the editor-in-chief, and the editorial board are entitled to make such decision. The court passed without their participation, and the ruling fails to mention the editorial board as respondents. Rosa Malsagova has sated that she will manage the website from France.
