Pokemon catcher at the temple was arrested for two months

On September 3, the Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg decided to detain Ruslan Sokolovsky, a video blogger who caught Pokemon in a temple, for two months. This is reported by the publication "Kanobu", which conducts an online broadcast from the courtroom.

Ruslan Sokolovsky, who caught Pokemon in the Church of All Saints on the Blood in Yekaterinburg, was prosecuted under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of hatred or enmity, humiliation of the dignity of a person or a group of persons on the grounds of an attitude to religion, punishment - up to five years in prison) and part 2 of article 148 of the Criminal Code (violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religion, committed in places specially designated for worship, other religious rites and ceremonies, punishment - up to three years in prison).

The blogger protested against the ban on playing Pokemon Go in Orthodox churches and recorded a video about it. Meanwhile, as follows from . the URA.Ru material, two videos became the reason for opening the case - in addition to the video with Pokemon catching, it was about the video called “Ideal Orthodox marriage?”, In which Sokolovsky mocked the statements of the local bishop