A resident of Blagoveshchensk was convicted of anti-Semitic messages on social networks.

in the Amur region to Man sentenced to probation for posting violence on social media over Berl Lazar. November 29, 2016 Blagoveshchensky District Court of the Amur region passed a guilty verdict on 49-year-old Sergei Lukyanenko. He is recognized guilty under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for the implementation of extremist activities).

The investigation and the court established that on April 13, 2016 S. Lukyanenko published on his page in one of the social networks a video message with call for violent action against the Chief Rabbi of Russia (FEOR) Berla Lazar. The defendant pleaded guilty.

The court sentenced the man to 1 year and 7 months in prison conditionally with a probationary period of 2 years. mobile phone with which an appeal was published, confiscated to the state.

As part of a joint project of the SOVA Center and the Russian Jewish Congress .

Sources

• In the Amur Region, a resident of the Blagoveshchensk district was convicted for posting an extremist video message on social networks // Website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Amur Region. November 29, 2016.