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In Kurgan, a court fined an artist for reposting a 10-year-old video “Why did you lie under a black man?”
The Kurgan City Court fined the Yekaterinburg artist Polina Guzeeva 1,000 rubles for reposting on VKontakte a clip of the TTP group called “Kupchino” with the refrain “Why did you lie down under black?” 10 years ago. This was reported by the head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov.
The court found Guzeeva guilty of distributing extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). Six years after the repost, the song was added to the list of extremist materials. In August 2020, an employee of the E Center contacted the artist and said that the song was recognized as an extremist. He gave her a ready-made sample statement in which Guzeeva undertakes to remove the post.
her , saying that an administrative case had been opened against her. contacted The artist signed the document, but after 2 weeks , the prosecutor's office
The TTP group and the actors who starred in the video published a video message in support of the girl. The band members assured that their song ridicules racial prejudice.