The criminal case against Aidar Halim has been dropped

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan dismissed the case on the initiation of a national hatred against the Tatar writer.

On October 5, 2017, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan terminated the proceedings on the case of the writer Aydar Halim, accused of inciting national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

The Halim investigation was completed in April 2016. The writer was accused of that on October 11, 2014, during a speech at a rally dedicated to the Day memory of the defenders of Kazan, who fell in 1552, he made emotional statements to the Russians with the mention of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was reported that Halim in his speech repeated the thesis from his own book "Kill empire" about the " biological death " of the Russian people and declared that the salvation of the Russians is possible only after they " get rid of Putin ". May 30, 2017 by the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court Tatarstan, this book was recognized extremist. However, in the same month, the prosecutor's office of the republic returned Halim's case in the UK.

Apparently, although Halim adheres to radical nationalist views, in this speech he did not allow calls for aggressive action against attitude towards the Russians, but only expressed his own opinion regarding political course of the Russian authorities and imperial thinking.

Sources

• Vadim Meshcheryakov. The court dismissed the criminal case of the Tatar writer Aidar Khalim // Idel.Reality. 2017. October 5.