A second trial began in the mound of the former Imam Yakupov

In the Kurgan City Court, the re -process of the former imam of the local cathedral mosque Ali Yakupov began, whose acquittal of which was canceled by the regional court in the case of extremism. About the first meeting, in the merits that took place on Friday, then Znak.com said .

As it allows you to conclude information on the institution’s website, the case is considered by Judge Evgeny Kolesov. There is no card with the name Yakupov on the site, but in the list of cases, the consideration of which was scheduled for August 4, this is the only information about the defendant of which is hidden. There were no preliminary hearings as part of the process. The defendant defends lawyer Marina Khrushcheva.

Yakupov is charged with paragraph "b" of part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity to the social group "Communists", committed using an official position). In the editorial office acting at the time that the episode imputed by the former imam was dated, this norm provides for up to five years in the colony.

According to the plot of the case, on the night of November 5, 2015, Yakupov published on VKontakte a commentary on the post prohibition of wearing hijabs in China. In the commentary, indignation was expressed by such a measure, and the Chinese Communists were predicted by the "celestial punishment".

The former imam himself does not admit guilt. He insists that he did not publish a comment, and his VK page was hacked. The case really indicates that the entrance to the Yakupov page was made from the "unknown device".

At the hearing on Friday, the FSB expert linguist Irina Popova was interrogated. She stated that although Allah was not a political entity, and there was no call to him as such, this does not mean that the comment that served as the reason for the persecution of the imam does not express a negative attitude towards the Communists. The publication, Popova noted, may encourage Muslims to violent actions against the Communists.

Yakupov himself previously explained the initiation of the case with his appointment to the position of imam. The previous Imam did not agree with this appointment Mizrobov and part of Jamaat, who took his side. Imam Yakupov became in 2015, and at the beginning of 2016 the case was opened against him. The defense of the accused did not exclude that it was Mizrobov’s supporters who were involved in the hacking of his pages.

As a result, Yakupov left the post of Imam of the mosque, saying that he "has no desire to work there anymore." The position was again taken by Mizrobov. After the initiation of the case, Yakupov removed his VK page.

In the first process in the case, one of the witnesses of the prosecution was the first secretary of the Kurgan regional committee of the Communist Party Vasily Kislitsyn. Speaking in court, he stated that in the commentary, the publication of which was charged with Yakupov, there were calls for extremism.

In the debate of the parties, the prosecutor requested for the defendant two years conditionally.

Nevertheless, on April 25 of this year, the judge of the Kurgan City Court Sergey Lushnikov acquitted Yakupov . He noted that the fact that the defendants have published the accusation, however, an appeal to the Higher Forces cannot be regarded as a crime.

However, the prosecutor’s office filed an appeal for the verdict, and on June 22, the judge of the regional court, Alexander Ermokhin, canceled the decision , sending the case for a new consideration.

Earlier, Yakupov lived in the Penza region. There, in 2013, he was charged under Articles 282 and 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism). However, later the case was terminated for the lack of corpus delicti.