Rostov court blocked access to twenty web-sites propagandizing suicide

Soviet district court of Rostov-on-Don satisfied a claim of Public prosecutor’s office by limiting access to 20 web-sites which offered over 150 ways of committing a suicide.

The number of children’s suicides is increasing in Rostov region. If, in particular, according to Public prosecutor’s office, in 2008 six such cases were registered, in 2009 this figure came to 13 and in 2010 there were already 22. In 2011 there was a great public response to a story of a schoolgirl who after saying goodbye to her relatives in a social network shot herself down on May, 9, because of her love for a fictional person. Besides, according to the data of Public prosecutor’s office, 81 attempted suicides of the underage were registered.

Public prosecutor’s inspection detected 20 web-sites on the Net explaining in detail how to go to one's account and offering over 150 ways of suicide. These sites were accessible to anyone.

Public prosecutor’s office submitted a lawsuit to court asking to limit access to these web-sites by means of filtration of their IP-addresses. Public prosecutor’s claims were granted in corpore, RIA “Novosti” reports.

Earlier, Children’s Ombudsman with the President of the Russian Federation Pavel Astakhov suggested to work out a federal target program of prevention children’s suicides and include a course of “media security” into the school study program.

See earlier report: "The court in Rostov region blocked access to Mavrodi's web-site".