In the Krasnodar Territory, local residents were fined for distributing extremist materials on social networks

In the Krasnodar Territory, a 20-year-old and a 28-year-old residents of the Abinsk district were fined for distributing extremist materials on social networks.

At the end of November 2017, in the Krasnodar Territory, a 20-year-old and a 28-year-old residents of the Abinsk district were punished for distributing extremist materials.

According to the prosecutor's office, the young people freely posted on their pages in one of the social networks "video and audio recordings promoting extremist ideology aimed at inciting ethnic and racial hatred, included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials."

The Deputy Prosecutor initiated cases of administrative offenses under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials).

The offenders were fined.

After the intervention of the prosecutor's office, the materials were removed by the young people on their own. Sources

• The prosecutor's office of the Abinsk region prevented the distribution of... // Official website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory. November 30, 2017