The Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation supported the bill on media liability for extremism

Committee on Constitutional legislation and state construction recommended the State Duma to adopt in the first reading the draft law on the responsibility of the media for extremism.

On February 16, 2015, the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building recommended that the State Duma adopt in the first reading a draft law on the responsibility of the media for publishing inflammatory appeals, extremist materials and materials promoting the cult of violence and cruelty.

Recall that, according to this bill, art. 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (abuse of freedom of the media) is proposed to be supplemented with part five, introducing fines for legal entities for " production and release of mass media products containing public calls for terrorist activities and (or) materials publicly justifying terrorism, and (or) other materials calling for the implementation of extremist activities or substantiating or justifying the need for such activities . The amount of fines is provided from 100 thousand to 1 million rubles with confiscation of the subject of an administrative offense.

Exceptions are provided for the offenses of Art. 20.3 and 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, for which liability has already been established.

For the publication of materials promoting the cult of violence and cruelty, legal entities are subject to an administrative fine of 20,000 to 200,000 rubles with confiscation of the subject of the administrative offense.

In addition, the bill refers to an increase in the amount of fines under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution of extremist materials) for legal entities - from 100 thousand to 1 million rubles (in the current version of the Code - from 50 thousand to 100 thousand rubles.

Our opinion on this bill can be found here .

Sources

• Artem Kirakosyan. The State Duma supported fines of up to a million rubles for extremism in the media // Parliamentary newspaper. 2015. February 16.
• Conclusion of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building on Bill No. 681710-6 "On Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation" // Website of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. 2015. February 16.