Medvedchuk lost: Court of Appeal overturned the decision to ban the book about Stus
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The Kyiv Court of Appeal overturned the decision of the Darnytsia District Court of Kyiv to ban the distribution of the book by journalist, Vakhtang Kipiani, "The Case of Vasyl Stus."
A judge of the Kyiv Court of Appeal announced this during the hearing, Ukrinform reports.
"The Kyiv City Court of Appeal is revoking the decision of the Darnytsia District Court of Kyiv of October 19, 2020, to ban the publication and distribution of Vakhtang Kipiani's book 'The Case of Vasyl Stus,'" the judge announced.
"We won the case," author Vakhtang Kipiani wrote on Facebook.
To recap, on October 19, 2020, the Darnytsia District Court of Kyiv partially satisfied the claim of People's Deputy Viktor Medvedchuk against Vivat Publishing House and historian and journalist Vakhtang Kipiani to ban the publication and distribution of the book "The Case of Vasyl Stus."
In particular, the court found some of the phrases in the book to be inaccurate and ordered them to be deleted, and prohibit the distribution of the book's printed edition and its further reproduction until the phrases containing information about Medvedchuk are eliminated. The court also ruled against banning Kipiani and the publisher from distributing book-related information in the press, radio, television, the Internet, and other media.
On November 30, the Kyiv Court of Appeal opened an appeal due to a complaint by journalist Vakhtang Kipiani's representative against the court's decision regarding the book "The Case of Vasyl Stus."
"The Case of Vasyl Stus" was published by Vivat in 2019. The book contains documents from the archives of the former KGB of the USSR about the high-profile case of the poet Vasyl Stus, testimonies of witnesses, letters of the poet from prison, memories of his relatives and friends.
