Correctional officer persecuted for writing life story of Prophet Muhammad

In the Sverdlovsk region, an employee of the colony was held accountable for distributing extremist materials.

January 21 2015, the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region reported that in relation to the head department for educational work with convicts FKU IK-2 GUFSIN of Russia for Sverdlovsk region initiated a case under Art. 20.29 Administrative Code (mass dissemination of extremist materials).

occasion was the fact that in the premises of the mosque at the colony the book of ibn Hisham's "Biography of the Prophet Muhammad". This authoritative Muslim religious work of the Arab scholar of the ninth century was banned in March 2012 by the Leninsky District Court of Orenburg, among 67 other materials, recognized as extremist automatically by association with the banned religious organization "Nurcular".

Recall this judgment is under review .

Sources

• Extremist literature found in penal colony // Website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region. 2015. January 21.