Adygea: court finds materials in "Free Kurdistan" extremist

The district court of Krasnogvardeiskoe village has treated as extremist some of the materials in the newspaper "Free Kurdistan", which is published in Moscow and distributed among the members of the Kurdish Diaspora resident in the Krasnogvardeiskiy District. The Diaspora is about 3000 strong, making almost 10 percent of the district population.

"The court has ruled to regard Nos. 1, 4 and 6 of the 'Free Kurdistan' for 2008 to be extremist materials subject to confiscation," said Gurgen Oganesyan, Acting Public Prosecutor of the Krasnogvardeiskiy District.

According to his story, in 2009, the prosecutor's office appointed a psycho-linguistic examination of several issues of the newspapers published in the Kurdish and Russian languages. The examination saw in publications attributes of kindling ethnic enmity, appeals to violence and negative judgments in relation to certain ethnic groups, the "Interfax-South" reports.

In the course of the proceedings, the court appointed, by the request of the paper publishers, another examination, the results of which, however, only confirmed the conclusions of the prosecutor's office, the Northern Caucasus News Agency reports.