29 May 2006

Alert

Government demands closure of far-right website


Incident details

journalist(s)

threatened

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(RSF/IFEX) - On 28 May 2006, the Polish government called on US authorities to shut down the far-right Internet website Redwatch, which is run from the United States, a government spokesman said. The move follows a 24 May appeal by RSF to Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro to investigate far-right Polish groups, such as "Blood and Honour", that are publicised by Redwatch.

A Polish prosecutor looking into "Blood and Honour" had said it was impossible to identify its militants in Poland because the site is hosted in the US.

Since January, the Redwatch-Poland site has carried a list of what it calls "enemy" journalists working for left and far-left groups, with their names, addresses and photos.

A journalist of the daily "Trybuna" is the latest addition to the list, bringing the number of threatened journalists to 16.



Source:

Reporters Without Borders
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75002 Paris
France
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Phone: +33 1 44 83 84 84
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