The Supreme Court allowed the confiscation of a computer for publishing a swastika

The Supreme Court of Russia ruled that it was legal to confiscate a computer for distributing Nazi symbols on the network by its owner. on May 30 This was reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

A resident of Krasnodar, Pokrovsky, filed a complaint with the Supreme Court against the rulings and decisions of courts of previous instances, who was fined one and a half thousand rubles for an administrative offense under part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Propaganda or public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols). Pokrovsky's personal computer was also confiscated. As follows from the judicial act, Pokrovsky posted an image “with elements of the Nazi swastika” on the VKontakte social network. According to the protocols of interrogation and court hearings, he admitted guilt in this, paid a fine, but began to appeal against the decision as excessively harsh.

The Supreme Court did not see any grounds for canceling the decisions of the courts of previous instances, and also emphasized in the act that a personal computer is the subject of an administrative offense and, according to the law, should be seized.

According to the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of Russia, 1,183 people were punished for public display of prohibited symbols (not only Nazi attributes, but symbols of extremist and various organizations banned in Russia) in a year. One in seven of them lost a computer or other electronic device, the publication cites statistics.