Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-01-15-Speech-1-034"
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"Madam President, on a point of order. I draw your attention to the fact that alarming events have been taking place in Moscow in the past 24 hours, mainly aimed at the independent media and the freedom of the press.
runs the independent television of Russia and its organisation has a number of radio stations and independent magazines. Mr Andrey Tsimaylo, the deputy chairman of
was yesterday arrested and subjected to five hours of interrogation, following which Mr Anton Titov, the financial director of independent television, was arrested at the home of his mother, the door having been broken in by the security police. A number of other junior employees of independent television are being arrested and interrogated as we sit here now.
This is an alarming development and it goes beyond the personal question of Mr Gusinsky, which I have raised before and, as is well known, I am an adviser to him.
Madam President, could we take this matter into consideration? You met the deputy chairman of
in June, Mr Malashenko. You spoke to him about this problem of government pressure on freedom of the press and you suggested that something should be done. Can we try to find some way of conveying our views to the Russian Government and sorting out this question of freedom of the press and expression which bedevils relations between the Russian Federation and the European Union?"@en1
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