20 January 2007, 22:23
The Russian State Duma has passed a bill aimed to strengthen the fight against extremist editions in Dagestan
Yesterday, on January 19, the State Duma of the Russian Federation voted 389 versus 26 for approval in the first reading of the bill initiated by the National Assembly of Dagestan that entitles the public prosecutor to go to court for recognition of information materials to be extremist not only at the location of the organization that has published such materials, but also at the place of detection and distribution of them. However, the federal centre refused to satisfy the main desire of the Dagestan authors of the bill: to entrust the public prosecutor to suspend, in case of detecting any extremist materials, dissemination such materials until the court decision on the presence of attributes of extremist activity in them, the IA "Dagestan" informs.
The IA REGNUM reports that according to Mr. Makhachov, as of today, over 200 printed editions have been detected in Dagestan, which contain direct appeals to overthrow the constitutional order and which are kindling religious enmity and propagating war. The explanatory note of the bill names some Russian and foreign Wahhabism ideologists - Ibn Taimiya, Ahmad Saluhutdin, Mahmud Istambul Magdi and Magomed Tagaev. Most frequently, the outlet data of these editions are either forged or unknown; as a rule, they are published outside the country, the authors of the bill assert.
