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Alexey Mironov was sentenced to a real prison term
A volunteer from the Cheboksary headquarters of Navalny received 2 years and 3 months in a colony-settlement for an anti-government statement and a call for the destruction of Muslims.
September 18 2017 Novocheboksary city court sentenced Aleksey Mironov, a volunteer headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Cheboksary, by 2 years 3 months in a colony-settlement. Mironov was found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for the implementation extremist activity on the Internet) and art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting a national hate). Recall that the prosecutor asked the court to appoint Mironov a term of 2.5 years.
The reason for the persecution of Mironov was that that he posted on his page on the social network "VKontakte" an image certificate of a citizen subject to conscription for military service, with English text: "God bless the USA Keep calm and f*** Russia" and the inscription over the image: "I officially call for violent change of power. From the point of view of the investigation, " the indicated a graphic image with an inscription containing signs of extremism was deliberately, publicly posted by Mironov in order to encourage unlimited a circle of persons to commit actions aimed at a violent change of power, and addressed to an indefinitely wide circle of people, which until June 21, 2016 was the object of study and viewing by at least 2 users information and telecommunications network of public Internet ".
We believe, that there are grounds for persecuting an activist under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code was not. Similar anti-government speech of a general nature from the lips of an ordinary citizen does not pose any danger to the state, especially since the audience, familiarized with the publication, was minimal. According to Art. 282 Mironov was accused of connection with a statement asserting the need for the extermination of Muslims. This We do not consider the accusation unfounded.
Note that Mironov was charged with publishing removed back in August last year, after he was convicted under Part 1 Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia or symbolism) for the repost of an image with a swastika, designed to hold parallel between Putin and Hitler. Novocheboksarsky city court then fined him 1500 rubles. Recall that persecution for publications, containing Nazi symbols, but not aimed at promoting Nazism, we considered illegal.
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