Yaroslavl: Administrative arrest for extremist songs on the VKontakte network

On July 7, 2015, in the Yaroslavl region, a local resident was sentenced to administrative arrest for publishing songs by a rock band "radical" on the VKontakte social network. nationalist orientation.

On July 7, 2015, the Frunzensky District Court of the city of Yaroslavl issued a decision on the administrative arrest of a local resident (born in 1990) for five days. Center staff for countering extremism, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Yaroslavl Region found that that the defendant posted on his page on the social network "VKontakte" 12 audio clips "of a well-known Russian rock band of radical nationalistic orientation, included in the Federal list extremist materials". ( Probably referring to the songs of the Kolovrat group - ed. )

With regard to a resident of Yaroslavl, drawn up a protocol on an administrative offense under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution of extremist materials). The man was placed in a special reception for the maintenance of persons arrested in the administrative order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Yaroslavl region to serve an administrative arrest by decision court.

Sources

• A resident of Yaroslavl is serving an administrative arrest for distributing extremist materials // Official site of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Yaroslavl region. 2015. July 8.