The trial of the leader of the nationalist movement "Altyn Urda" began in Kazan

On February 16, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan held a preliminary hearing in the criminal case of the leader of the Altyn Urda movement Danis Safargali, who is accused of intentionally causing minor bodily harm, beatings, hooliganism and inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity, Idel . writes . Religions.

Safargali's lawyer Rushana Kamalova requested that the case be returned to the prosecutor's office. According to her, the indictment is not specified.

In addition, she asked to exclude from the evidence the psychological-linguistic examination, which was carried out under Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code, since it was carried out in violation of the requirements of the Code of Criminal Procedure. According to the conclusions of the examination, Safargali's 15 posts on the VKontakte social network contained "negative characteristics of a group of people on the social grounds of the President of the Russian Federation, the authorities of the Russian Federation, the media", "insulting the religious feelings of believing Orthodox Christians", negative "setting against certain ethnic groups - Jews, Russians.

The court denied both motions. The court also denied the defense's motion to change the measure of restraint from detention to house arrest. The court extended Safargali's arrest for three months until May 21, 2017.

earlier As OVD-Info wrote , Safargali is charged with an episode with a fight during which he defended his pregnant wife, and one of the posts imputed to him is the publication of a video “Rashist pseudo-spirituality of the Russian Orthodox Church”, as a result of watching which, according to “experts”, “Self-awareness, self-esteem can be destroyed, beliefs formed over the years can be replaced with new ones that are opposite to existing norms, because of which people can form resentment, insecurity, a sense of their own inferiority, tension, confusion, anxiety, panic and fear of the future.”