[Privsec] interesting -

[Veni Markovski]

Interesting development in Sweden. The story on the original site is 
with more details - for those of you who can read Russian.




Swedish authorities shut down Chechen separatist Web site

The Associated Press

Swedish police have shut down a Chechen separatist Web site following 
Russian complaints that the site encouraged terrorism, officials and 
news reports said Saturday.
The Kavkaz Center Web site was closed down Friday after police with a 
search warrant confiscated two servers from the PRQ Web hosting 
company in Stockholm, police spokeswoman Carolina Ekeus said.
The site is regarded as a clearing house for information and a 
mouthpiece for Chechen rebel leaders battling Russian troops in the 
breakaway province.
Mikael Storsjo, the owner of the confiscated servers, told Swedish 
news agency TT that the Russian embassy had filed a police complaint 
that the site incited rebellion by hailing a bloody attack in Nalchik 
by suspected Islamic extremists in October.
Prosecutor Hakan Roswall, who ordered the servers confiscated, could 
not be reached for comment.
The Web site has bounced around on numerous servers in the Nordics 
and Baltics for years, and has previously been shut down by 
authorities in both Finland and Lithuania.
Russia initially complained to the Swedish government about the site 
in 2004, when it was moved to a Swedish server.
On Saturday, the site had been replaced by a temporary page with a 
link to a different Web address with the same content as the original 
Kavkaz Center site.

www.kavkazcenter.com was the site name. In the message on the web 
site today, there are more details, in Russian.


more: http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/05/06/web.shtml

Swedish prosecutors have closed a web-site on which Chechen 
separatists promoted their ideas and called for war with Russia. The 
move was prompted by a request from the Russian authorities, Finnish 
owner of the servers and the hosting company owner told The Local 
daily on Saturday.
The web-site was hosted on servers owned by a Finnish businessman. 
Russian and Finnish objections in autumn 2004 resulted in him moving 
the site to Sweden, where he rents space at a web hosting company. 
The owner of the hosting company yesterday received a call from the 
international prosecutor's office in Stockholm, requesting a meeting.
"They came to the office and held a short meeting about our 
relationship to the client. Someone from the National Criminal 
Investigation Department also took part," the owner explained. "The 
prosecutor then decided to search the premises and to confiscate two 
servers." "I see this as an outrage. I don't agree with what's 
written on the website but I respect their right to free speech."
TT News agency said on Friday that the internet address of the closed 
web-site was linking to a temporary homepage with identical content, 
hosted in a server in Lithuania. Lithuania's supreme court recently 
decided despite Russian opposition that the website can remain up.