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Editor-in-chief of independent newspaper "FLASH!" Denis Danilevskiy has received threats from unknown persons

10 may 2012
May 10, 2012

There was an audio record with obcene words and threats "everyone should be burnt" on autoresponder of the editorial office of independent newspaper "FLASH!" (East Kazakhstan) on May 08, 2012. It was the second threat. The first threat was placed in commentaries to paper "National Democrats Against Customs Union on the website of newspaper on May 07, 2012. A visitor "guest" has accussed the authorof publication Denis Danilevskiy in chauvinism. An unknown person promised to find and kill him. If he/she could not find him, he/she would kill members of his family. It was not a threat not what some nonsense, it was serious, too serious.

Denis Danilevskiy has filed a complaint with law-enforcement agency. The representative of newspaper Alexander Bozhkov believed that threats originated from trial by suit of author and director of documentary film "Roads of Mustafa Soqay" to the newspaper "FLASH!", journalists Denis Danilevskiy and Sergei Mikheyev. Alexander Bozhkov said that they received threats after that defendants set up a plea to suit of Begmanov. Bozhkov thoght that this fact as a pressure upon journalists with goal to admit the claim. He did not exclude the pressure upon court.
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