No serious news-gathering organization would print or broadcast such an allegation based on this watery testimony; indeed, even if the information was triple checked and irrefutable, most responsible publications and television and radio news programs would at least ponder whether it was fair to report an emotional remark made 26 years earlier.
It's an allegation based on the far-right groups that supported the uprising that toppled President Viktor Yanukovych, as well as the nationalism of Western Ukraine during World War Two.
You will appreciate it is difficult to comment on allegations based on extracts from unseen emails.
As your editorial notes, teachers must be safe from capricious or vague allegations based on politics or personality.
The allegations, based on documents leaked by National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden, included claims that Washington had bugged EU offices and even the mobile phone of Chancellor Merkel.
In a letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Mr. Khazaee said that Iran "strongly and categorically rejects these fabricated and baseless allegations, based on the suspicious claims by an individual".
The Daily Telegraph claimed qualified privilege in the libel case brought against it by George Galloway over allegations, based on disputed Iraqi documents found after the end of the Iraq war, that rebel Labour MP was in the pay of Saddam Hussein.
The Bush administration is scrambling to explain how allegations based on forged documents purporting to show Iraqi uranium purchases from Niger found their way into the State of the Union address.
On January 30th Pakistan's high commissioner to London, Wajed Shamsul Hasan, declared that the attack was not planned in Pakistan, and accused India of making allegations based on "fabricated" or "flimsy" evidence.The senior Pakistani official, who is involved in Pakistan's investigation, suggested that this was nonsense.
"It would be helpful to me to have your independent, professional advice on the issues that you consider most pertinent related to the various allegations, based on your review of completed and pending investigative reports and other materials and information," he said in the memo.
The Israilovs' filings, never made public, appear to have been the first formal allegations based on the actions of Mr. Kadyrov, who has been celebrated by the Kremlin as a hero for marginalizing the insurgency in the Republic of Chechnya since 2004.
