Five Kusa residents fined for religious literature

Kusinsky district court fined five citizens under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (storage of extremist materials for the purpose of their distribution) for amounts from 1 to 2 thousand rubles. on January 25 This was announced by the prosecutor's office of the Chelyabinsk region.

Employees of the supervisory agency established that five residents of the Kusinsky municipal district, for the purpose of mass distribution among the residents of the city and other believing citizens, kept literature included in the published federal list of extremist materials at their place of residence: the books "Fortress of the Muslim", "Pillars of Islam and Faith", brochures "Islam Today".

“From our point of view, the first two books were illegally banned, and therefore it is illegal to prosecute them for their distribution. In addition, it is not clear from the report of the prosecutor's office on what the accusations of the residents of Kusa were based that they set out to massively distribute these materials, ”the notes . SOVA information and analytical center