In Cheboksary, a teenager was convicted of posting xenophobic materials on a social network.

On August 4, 2011, the Leninsky District Court of the city of Cheboksary announced that an 18-year-old student of a local vocational school was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

Recall that from June to September 2010 in the city of Cheboksary, he placed in created by him in an open group of one of the social networks on the Internet, xenophobic files and videos.

The teenager was sentenced to 2 years and 2 months in prison. freedom with serving in a general regime colony.

The verdict of the court did not enter into force.

Note that at the time of the crime the teenager was 17 years old, at that time he was serving a suspended sentence trial for drug trafficking, which "due to non-execution duties imposed on the juvenile by the court” in September 2010 was replaced by actual imprisonment.

Sources

• Cheboksary teenager found guilty of distributing extremist materials through a social network on the Internet // Official site of the SU IC of Russia for the Chuvash Republic. 2011. 4 August.