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Lawyers of the Slavic Legal Center call on the Prosecutor General's Office to bring to justice the moderators of groups inciting religious hatred on VKontakte.
February 1, 2012 of the year, an open communication of the lawyers of the Slavic Legal Center was published to the Prosecutor General and to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, dedicated the problem of incitement to hatred on the Internet.
Authors appeals are asked to regard it " in as a pretext for initiating criminal proceedings against persons responsible for the content of the content "distributed on the social network" VKontakte "and" frankly insulting human dignity, public morality, religious feelings of millions Christians, Muslims and representatives of other religious denominations living in Russian Federation ".
In the text appeal, it is emphasized that “ this is not just about defamatory information, but about a continuing crime, a sanction for which is enshrined in Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and which causes damage to the state and causing moral harm to millions of Russians .”
Links on the corresponding groups of the social network are not given in circulation, but, according to in the words of the authors of the appeal, “ there will be sent in writing to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation .
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