Today, the Supreme Court (SC) has upheld a presidential order to classify military casualties in peacetime. The application was a group of journalists and members of the “Team-29″, which is considered a violation of this decree the rights to freedom of expression. To appear in court on the part of the Ministry of Defense lawyer Natalia Elina said that President Vladimir Putin issued a similar decree at the request of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
«to the plaintiffs on the abolition of the decree , which expanded the list of information constituting a state secret, to reject “- the judge ruled, announce today rezulyativnuyu part of the solution.
So intsiativnyy group of bloggers, journalists and public figures have been denied the appeal on a decree, which, according to the plaintiffs, is a by normative act and does not meet the federal law “On State Secrets” and information about the losses of personnel are not included in any of the categories specified in the law. The applicants also argued that the decree violates the human rights and freedoms.
Decree on classifying military losses, the president signed on 28 May. The list of information constituting a state secret, and now included information about deaths of servicemen “in peacetime, during special operations.” The final document referred only to war.
group of human rights activists from the “Team-29″, dedicated to ensuring the rights of citizens to access to official information, calling it a violation of free speech and is directly related to the decree the possible participation of Russian troops in the fighting in the Donbass. The head of the organization, Ivan Pavlov in the lawsuit also raised a number of journalists, including Grigory Pasko and the Lion Shlosberg. The latter is known to be the first informed about unidentified graves Pskov paratroopers, who may have been involved in operations in Ukraine. Also among the applicants Svetlana Davydova – mother of many children from Vyazma against which was first initiated, then closed the case of high treason.
In the course of today’s meeting head with claims and the judicial work of the Ministry of Defense Natalia Elina, who represented the state, said that a decree classifying military casualties in peacetime has been developed and signed by President Putin at the request of the Prime Minister Medvedev.
According to defendants – the president, the government and the Defense Ministry – under the state secret information protected by the state are understood in its military, foreign policy, economic, intelligence, counter-intelligence and operatively-search activity, the distribution of which may be prejudicial to the security of Russia, and the number of troops and their state of readiness refers to information in the military field. “Therefore, the provisions of the law explicitly provides that the information on the size, power, persons in the military field, including their physical condition, refer to the information constituting a state secret,” – stressed the defendants.
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