Altai residents' appeal to the president is not recognized as extremist material

The Gorno-Altai city court dismissed the prosecutor's office's claim to recognize as extremist a text published in the newspaper Amadou Altai.

1 December 2015 Gorno-Altai City Court rejected the claim of the prosecutor's office of Gorno-Altaisk, demanding to be recognized as extremist published in the newspaper "Amadou Altay" appeal to President Putin. The court considered that the text does not contradict the requirements current legislation.

Recall the appeal said that a number of prominent figures of the Republic of Altai "imposes Buddhism to the Altai people" and falsifies the history of the Altaic people. The authors of the appeal accused mountain Altai Buddhists that they received money from the "totalitarian sects" "Nipponzan Mehoji" and created with these funds in Gorno-Altaisk her branch while true the religion of the Altaians is traditional Beliefs "Altai Dyan Ak Dyan", says in the document. The authors addressed to Putin with a request "close the totalitarian pseudo-Buddhist sect" and not hinder the development "true Altai faith".

Recall Also, What in 2013, the former editor-in-chief of Amadou Altai" Valery Chekonov was recognized guilty according to part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism committed motivated by religious hatred and enmity) for desecration of worship cross, in 2012 Chekonov was sentenced to compulsory work under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code for publication in "Amadou Altai" materials, " directed to promote the superiority of the Altai faith and unacceptability of distribution Buddhism in the territory of the Republic Altai, including finding persons, preaching Buddhism, on the territory Republic of Altai , and these materials were recognized as extremist.

Full the text of the appeal published in the newspaper to President Putin is unknown to us. Available fragments presented online, do not contain inflammatory calls, although they can be attributed to the language enmity. They only express dislike certain group of Buddhists.

Sources

• Decision in case No. 2-2861/2015 // Website of the Gorno-Altai City Court. 2016. January.