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Convicted for video on VKontakte network
On March 25, 2014, in Barnaul (Altai Territory), a local resident (born 1993) was convicted for a xenophobic video posted on the VKontakte network.
The Magistrate's Court of Judicial District No. 6 of the Leninsky District of Barnaul considered a criminal case against a local resident, born in 1993, "who is an adherent of nationalist ideas." The Court found that in May 2012, an Internet user posted on his Internet page on a social network a video " containing signs of propaganda of violent acts in the form of deprivation of life in relation to the indigenous inhabitants of the Caucasus, Transcaucasia or Central Asia, located in the territory Russia, which includes a negative assessment of a group of people on a national basis, accessible to the perception of a wide range of people .
On March 25, 2014, he was convicted under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of the human dignity of a group of persons on the basis of nationality) to 5 months of corrective labor with deduction of 10% of the earnings of the convict to the state.
The verdict has not entered into force.
Sources
- A resident of Barnaul was convicted for inciting hatred towards persons of non-Slavic nationality using the Internet // Official website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Altai Territory. 2014. March 26.