20 Apr 2022 12:34

Court upholds Ekho Moskvy radio blocking as lawful

MOSCOW. April 20 (Interfax) - Moscow's Tagansky District Court has turned down a lawsuit from the Ekho Moskvy radio station, which asked to declare its blocking unlawful.

"The lawsuit has been declined," court press secretary Zulfia Gurinchuk told Interfax on Wednesday

JSC Ekho Moskvy filed a lawsuit against Federal communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, and the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, seeking the declaration of motions for blocking access to the Ekho Moskvy radio as unlawful.

"The claims made in the motion are not supported with any examples or evidence," Ekho Moskvy Editor-in-Chief Alexei Venediktov said on Telegram.

Ekho Moskvy's broadcasting was put to a stop, and its website was blocked on orders from the Prosecutor General's Office in early March.

The Prosecutor General's Office demanded that Roskomnadzor restrict access to Ekho Moskvy and TV Rain (designated as foreign-agent media outlets by the Russian Justice Ministry) due to the purposeful, systematic publishing of calls for extremism and violence and knowingly false information about the conduct of Russian servicemen during the special operation protecting the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics on their websites.