YouTube obeyed the Grozny Court

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A source in the General Prosecutor's Office told Interfax that the court in Chechnya did not make a decision on the recognition of the scandalously known film “Muslim Innocence” by extremist material, but only made a definition as a stimulating measure to prevent its distribution. "The ruling made by the Leninsky District Court by the claim of the Ministry of the Chechen Republic on National Policy, Press and Information is an intermediate, as an interim measure" in the form of suspension of distribution by any method of the video "Innocent Muslims". The final decision should be made later, ”the agency’s interlocutor said.

The Leninsky District Court of Grozny recognized the trailer for the film "Innocence of Muslims" by extremist. This was announced by Minister of Chechnya on National Policy, Press and Information Murat Tagiev. "The film tells about the life of the Prophet Muhammad and his associates in a distorted and insulting form. In this regard, we appealed to the Leninsky District Court with a lawsuit to recognize this film as extremist and inciting interfaith and ethnic disturbance on religious grounds. The claim was satisfied," Tagiev said. According to the law, the court decision applies to all of Russia.

On the court website, no information on this subject could be found. Assistant Judge Timur Gabazov, responsible for interacting with the media, to the question of PublicPost, was really prohibited by the video, refused to answer. "Send requests - we will answer, so the leadership said. In the meantime - without comment," he said.

The lawsuit filed a lawsuit by Tagiev’s department. According to him , the court decided that "the failure of the necessary measures to suppress the uncontrolled spread of the insulting religious feelings, socio-class, provocative video material can lead to serious negative consequences associated with the destabilization of the political situation in the entire region, a significant part of the population of which confesses Islam." It is noteworthy that the court hearing was held with the participation of representatives of the Roskomnadzor Office for Chechnya and the main regional providers - CJSC Chechen cellular communications, Orange LLC, FSUE Electrosvyaz, OJSC Mobile TeleSystems and the Caucasian branch of Megafon OJSC.

The Grozny Prosecutor's Office issued the local providers on September 24. Only the "orange" closed access to YouTube, after which the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov warned the disobey. "Muslims work in the regional branches of these organizations. They themselves should be interested in closing access to this film. We all heard the performance of the country's President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who condemned the filmmakers (in fact, Putin urged the religious feelings of believers - Publicpost). If the operators lose the decision of the prosecutor's office, then they must implicate the responsibility according to the law," He said. After that, Vaine Telecom, Chechen cellular communications and FSUE Elektrosvyaz also closed access to video hosting. ( Read more about how regional providers reacted to the warning of the prosecutor’s office, read in the PublicPost material ).

The day before the film was removed from the VKontakte social network. The owner and founder of the resource Pavel Durov wrote on his Twitter: "He looked at the sensational" innocence of Muslims. "Wisely, low -budgetly, non -uniskom.

On the same day, the action against the "innocence of Muslims" was held in Simferopol , more than 500 participants of the autonomous Crimean Muslim community "tickling" with posters "insulting the prophet - insulting the Almighty!", "Hey, hateers of Islam, know: the punishment of Allah is inevitable!", "Muslims are a united people", "America," America, "America, Muhammed You are clean, humiliated! ”,“ You cannot avoid the justice of Allah! ” The action lasted about two hours.

On Thursday, the United States arrested a possible creator of a film, a 55-year-old Christian-Copt of Egyptian origin to Polukul Baseli Nakulu. The American authorities emphasized that the arrest is not related to the film, but with a violation of the conditions of early release. Nakula was convicted in California for financial fraud, but it was released in 2011 on the condition that it will not use the Internet without special permit, as well as use pseudonyms.

The 14-minute trailer for "Muslim innocence" appeared on the Internet on September 11, 2012. On the same day, a group of Islamists fired and set on fire to the US Consulate General in the Libyan city of Benghazi. Four Americans were killed, including the ambassador Chris Stevens . Mass shares also held in Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, in the Palestinian territories. At the moment, more than 14 million people watched the movie on YouTube.

In connection with the aggravated situation, the US government turned to Google, which owns YouTube, with a request to remove the trailer from the hosting, but the company refused to fulfill the request for the reason that the users who posted this video did not violate the rules for using the portal. In Russia, representatives of Google said that they would remove the video from the Russian localization of video hosting after they are coming a copy of the document with a court decision. "If in relation to those countries where YouTube is localized, Google InC. or its subsidiary YouTube LLC receive a court decision or an official notification that a certain video (indicating specific URLs) is recognized as illegal in the established manner, then after considering the notification , the company blocked the video on the territory of this country. Google spokesman Alla Zabrovskaya.