In Tula, the police tried to seize the circulation of an opposition newspaper

April 4, 2012 employees of the Tula center "E" attempted to seize the circulation of the local newspaper "Honest Word" under the pretext of testing for extremism.

As the MP said City Duma from the Yabloko party, founder of the Chestnoe the word "Sergey Filatov, the traffic police stopped the car with the circulation of the newspaper, and then employees of the "E" center appeared and tried to seize the entire circulation of 75,000 copies in the car "for examination for the presence in the publication of materials of extremist content". in place of the leader of the Tula "Yabloko" managed to defend the circulation, the police limited themselves to only 15 copies of the newspaper.

According to Sergei Filatov, the attempt to seize the issue of the newspaper may be due to the fact that he contained materials on electoral fraud and tax violations.

Recall that we consider it illegal the practice of confiscating print runs under the pretext of checking for extremism: to conduct such a check, several copies of the publication are enough.

Sources

• Employees of the Center for Combating Extremism Seized Copies of the Independent Newspaper "Honest Word" // Tula news. 2012. April 4.