Saratov prosecutor's office is looking for "extremism" in bookstores

On March 29, 2012, it became known that the prosecutor's office Oktyabrsky district of Saratov conducted an audit of compliance with the law "On countering extremist activity" in a bookstore located on Chapaev Street, and made a presentation to the store management.

There is no literature recognized as extremist in the store. found. However, the prosecutor's office found a violation of the lack of Federal List of Extremist Materials and that the books on display for sale, are not checked against the List and, accordingly, there are no acts such reconciliations, and demanded the elimination of violations and the involvement of employees shop for disciplinary action.

The actions of the prosecutor's office seem unlawful to us. Such preventive measure, such as reconciliation of commercially available literature with the Federal list of extremist materials may be considered reasonable, but it is not prescribed legislation. Law in In this case, however, it was not violated - the store did not sell "extremist" books.

In addition, sanctions against bookstores for their lack of a list of extremist materials, as well as the sanctions against libraries, in our opinion, look imitation of activity, designed to artificially inflate statistics.

Sources

• The prosecutor's office of the Oktyabrsky district conducted an inspection of compliance with the legislation on countering extremist activities // Website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Saratov region. 2012. March 29.