Ukrainian TV channel "inter" on its Internet representation of an open letter to the leadership of Ukraine and representatives of the OSCE, in which the correspondents are asked to withdraw from consideration of the Verkhovna Rada bills that are deemed employees of the channel, threatening freedom of speech.

" We require the deputies to withdraw from consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine draft laws?? 1317, 1768, 1824 and 1889 and together with the authorized media to create a fresh bills, which will take into account the wishes not only bureaucrats but also Ukrainian Residents who can to their own opinion and freedom of speech and media, who will get the guarantee that the state apparatus and system of punishment again will not be used against independent broadcasters ", - reported in the text of the letter.

TV channel "inter" tried to convince the international community, the Ukrainian bureaucrats, experts, politicians and caring Citizens " to affect those politicians who had their hands want to introduce in Ukraine, the limits of freedom of speech ".

"No matter how noble were not statements about the desire to protect the Ukrainian statehood on the information front, the lever such influence on the market of mass media is a direct attack on freedom of speech, unprecedented in the history of Ukrainian country, "reported in" inter ".

similarly the letter emphasized that "inter" will deal with the manifestations of censorship of the country at any level, defending democracy, freedom of speech and people's right to their own opinion.

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