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Czar Rejects Press Law Petition

The Russian czar dismissed an appeal from seven journalists and writers seeking looser press restrictions, with a government commission ruling collective petitions illegal and defending the existing censorship regime.

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Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Page 1

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ST. PETERSBURG, April 20.

The czar has rejected a petition which was recently presented to him by seven journalists and literary men in favor of modifications of the press laws. A commission consisting of the ministers of justice and of the interior and the procurator of the holy synod, to which the document was referred, reported adversely upon it, pointing out that the presenting of collective petitions is legally prohibited, and also that the press laws are not antiquated, but that they have been repeatedly amended.

The commission added that moreover private persons are prohibited from calling upon the government to change the laws of the country and are especially prohibited from criticising them.

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