Chuvash activist fined for reposting excerpt from John Oliver show

Semyon Kochkin was convicted for demonstrating the symbols of the forbidden "Islamic State" in a satirical TV show.

On May 25, 2017, the Moscow District Court of Cheboksary recognized the coordinator of the local headquarters, Alexei Navalny, an activist "Open Russia" Semyon Kochkin guilty under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of prohibited symbols) and fined him one and a half thousand rubles.

occasion served what in August 2015 Kochkin did on the social network "VKontakte" repost of an excerpt from the satirical program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, translated by Andrey Bocharov. This is a video called "How Chechen girls cheated ISIS militants". The video features the symbols of the "Islamic movement" banned in Russia. state", which was the reason for the persecution of Kochkin.

Obviously, that the video does not aim to promote the ideology and practice of the "Islamic state", therefore we consider the persecution of Kochkin unlawful. To Unfortunately, Russian law punishes public display forbidden symbolism without regard to context.

Previously Kochkin was going to be prosecuted for reposting a collage with a swastika from the singer's public page Coins, and for spreading a banned slogan they were unlawfully attracted Chuvash oppositionists Dmitry   Semenov , Dmitry Pankov and Alena Blinov , and for public display of Nazi symbols - activist Anton Kravchenko and lawyer Yuri Sidorov .

Sources

• The coordinator of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Cheboksary was fined for demonstrating extremist symbols // Cheboksary24. May 25, 2017
• html Daria Komarova. 'Last Week Tonight' host John Oliver learns repost penalty // Idel.Reality. May 25, 2017