Yuri Mukhin was charged

May 31, 2011 Investigation Department for Basmanny district in the city of Moscow attracted as accused in the case under part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred) Yuri Mukhin, author of the article "I also have advice", published in the newspaper "To the Barrier" from 06.10.2009.

In the Decree on attraction to as an accused, it is said that Mukhin's article is aimed at humiliating dignity of persons by the fact of belonging to certain groups (Russians and Jews). This part of the claims was known to us before, and we have already said that the article as a whole does not go beyond conventional hate speech, which is nevertheless should not become a subject criminal prosecution.

In addition, Mukhina is blamed for that he, "in violation of paragraph 3 of article 1 of the Federal Law "On countering extremist activities”, used quotes from A. Hitler's book "Mein Kampf", which is extremist materials due to of this law as the works of leaders National Socialist Party Germany". Meanwhile, the specified paragraph The law only states that is extremist materials, and does not contain a word about the ban citing these materials.

Sources

• The meanness of experts (the text of the Resolution on the involvement as an accused) // Forum.msk. 2011. June 1.