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Administrative cases under Art. 20.3.1 Code of Administrative Offences. September 2019
After the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code in the Code of Administrative Offenses, a new article appeared - 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). We collect the resolutions issued on it into a single list on a monthly basis.
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On September 26, 2019, the Penza District Court fined 10,000 rubles to a 30-year-old resident of the village of Kondol, who in the summer of 2019, drunk, tried to get into the house of a 65-year-old neighbor and at the same time publicly shouted xenophobic insults.
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On September 11, 2019, the Leninsky District Court of Kursk fined a local resident, Sh., 10,000 rubles for posting videos directed against representatives of certain ethnic groups on the VKontakte social network.
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On September 27, 2019, the Perovsky District Court of Moscow fined Andrei Malosolov, a journalist and fan of CSKA, 20,000 rubles for publishing a racist post on Twitter calling former Spartak player Brazilian Luis Adriano a monkey. Malosolov himself did not admit his guilt. He believes that the statement was emotional in nature and concerned only Adriano's behavior during the match.
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On September 6, 2019, it became known that in St. Petersburg, the Vyborgsky District Court fined Igor Yurkov for 10,000 rubles. The reason for initiating an administrative case was that from August 21, 2018 to December 9, 2018, a man published some xenophobic comments in the SportFaza group on VKontakte.
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On September 4, 2019, it became known that in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, a court fined a resident of Nizhnevartovsk for 10,000 rubles for posting comments “aimed at inciting religious hatred” on one of the websites
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On September 6, 2019, it became known that in Bashkiria, two local residents (aged 59 and 36) were fined 10,000 rubles each. One of them posted a xenophobic comment on Odnoklassniki, and the other posted a xenophobic post on VKontakte.
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On September 3, 2019, it became known that in the Kurgan Region, the Shadrinskiy District Court fined A. Lukin 5,000 rubles for posting many xenophobic videos and comments on his VKontakte page. According to the Shadrinsk Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office, for the first time the case against Lukin was brought to court in May 2019, but then it was terminated due to the lack of corpus delicti. The prosecutor's office appealed the dismissal of the case, which led to its new consideration.
Sources
- For inciting hatred and enmity, a resident of the village was fined. Kondol // Prosecutor's office of the Penza region. 2019. October 7th.
- Based on the decision of the prosecutor, a resident of the city of Kursk was brought to administrative responsibility in connection with inciting hatred, enmity and humiliation of human dignity // Prosecutor's office of the Kursk region. 2019. October 4.
- The court fined 20 thousand rubles. journalist A. Malosolov for insulting the former Spartak football player // City News Agency "Moscow". 2019. September 27.
- Case card No. 5-1031/2019 // Vyborgsky District Court of St. Petersburg. 2019. September 4th.
- Petersburger received a fine for angry comments in the social network // Nevsky News. 2019. September 6th.
- Resident of Nizhnevartovsk convicted of religious provocation on the Internet // Bulletin of the Surgut region. 2019. September 4th.
- A resident of Bashkiria was fined 10 thousand rubles for a post on a social network // UfaTime.ru. 2019. September 6th.
- A resident of Bashkiria was punished for commenting on a publication on the Internet // Ufacity.news. 2019. September 4th.
- Resolution on case No. 5-135/2019 // Shadrinsky district court of the Kurgan region. 2019. August 21.
- Resolution on case No. 5-93/2019 // Shadrinsky district court of the Kurgan region. May 23, 2019
- A resident of the city of Shadrinsk, who distributed materials of an extremist nature, was brought to administrative responsibility at the request of the inter-district prosecutor // Prosecutor's office of the Kurgan region. 2019. September 3.