The Basmanny prosecutor's office once again refused to initiate a criminal case

On February 7, 2006, the answer of the Basmanny inter-district prosecutor of Moscow came to the name of Evgeny Ikhlov ("Movement for Human Rights"): ref. N pr-98/05 dated 13.01.2006 A.Zakharova on the refusal to consider the complaint in accordance with Art. 124 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation on the decision of the investigator G. Radionov dated June 24, 2005. Investigator G. Radionov refused to initiate a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("inciting national and religious hatred and enmity") on the fact of conducting two anti-Semitic campaigns - "letter 500" and "letter 5000" .

Let us recall that earlier the Basmannaya inter-district prosecutor's office of Moscow, following the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg, did not see any signs of incitement of national hatred in the anti-Semitic letter. The wide public and international outcry caused by this decision forced the Moscow city prosecutor's office to return both applications for re-examination, which on June 24, 2005 again ended with a refusal to initiate a criminal case. After that, E. Ikhlov appealed against both resolutions to the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office, believing that procedural norms had been violated during their preparation.

It is indicative, firstly, that, each time, regardless of the instance to which the human rights activists applied, their complaints were returned to the Basmanny prosecutor's office, and secondly, that the answer to E. Ikhlov's last appeal came only 5 months after the filing of the document.

Sources

• Basmannaya prosecutor's office does not consider "letter 500" inciting ethnic and religious hatred // Human rights in Russia. 2006. February 7.