The MPs of the Party of Socialists requested the Constitutional Court to establish the constitutionality of provisions of the law that amended the Code of Audiovisual Media Services, the so-called law on the fight against disinformation that the Socialists call “censorship law”, IPN reports.

The challenge was filed by MPs Adela Răileanu and Grigore Novac. They consider that by the made changes, provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova and of international fundamental human rights documents are being violated. According to tem, the amendments disproportionately introduce norms designed to prevent the spreading of inconvenient information and measures to punish for disinformation and to strangle all the business entities operating in the field.

Parliament adopted and President Maia Sandu recently promulgated the law on information security that bans news bulletins and features produced in countries that didn’t ratify the European Convention on Transfrontier Television, including Russia. This way, the media outlets that disinform will face gradual punishment in the form of fine up to the withdrawal of the right to broadcast advertisements. The law bans programs that contain disifnroamtion, propaganda about military aggression, with extremist content, with content that is terrorist in character or with false information that poses a threat to national security.