Fine for a video on a social network

In Tatarstan, a 38-year-old resident of Nizhnekamsk was fined for showing extremist organization paraphernalia on the Internet.

In June 2017, in Tatarstan, a 38-year-old resident of Nizhnekamsk was brought to administrative responsibility under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (public demonstration of paraphernalia of extremist organizations).

According to the case file, on his personal page on the social network, the defendant posted a video "in which an image is shown that is identical to the attributes of an international terrorist organization."

The offender was fined 1,000 rubles.

The video has been removed from the network.

Sources

• Nizhnekamsk city prosecutor's office brought a local resident to administrative responsibility for extremism on the Internet // Official website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Tatarstan. 2017. June 5.