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Lithuanian court rejects UK company's Ren TV Baltic appeal

BC, Vilnius, 04.02.2016.Print version
A Lithuanian court has rejected an appeal by UK-registered company Baltic Media Alliance Ltd. against a three-month ban for the re-broadcasting of Russian-language TV channel Ren TV Baltic a year ago, informs LETA/BNS.

"The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania's decision was applied not to the claimant, the company that turned to the court, but Lithuanian rebroadcasters. Therefore, the decision to apply sanctions has no legal affect on the claimant, a UK company," Sigita Jacineviciene-Baltaduone, spokeswoman for Vilnius Regional Administrative Court, told BNS on February 3rd.

 

She said the court based its ruling on the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania in a similar case, therefore the appeal was rejected as unfounded.

 

The RTCL temporarily banned reproadcasting of Ren TV Baltic shows last January after experts found one of its show spread tendentious and biased information about the events in Ukraine, incited war and hatred of Ukrainians and Ukraine' legitimate government as well as EU and NATO countries supporting Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.






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