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The Moscow City Court received a complaint from Idrak Mirzalizade
The stand-up comedian demands to completely cancel the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which banned him from staying in Russia.
On October 25, 2021, stand-up comedian Idrak Mirzalizade applied to the Moscow City Court with complaint against the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow, which on October 5 2021 only partially satisfied his claim against the Ministry of Internal Affairs and ordered the department to establish a "reasonable time" for a ban on the comedian's stay in Russia instead of a life-long one. Mirzalizade intends to achieve complete repeal of the ban.
Recall 30 August 2021, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reported that in relation to Mirzalizade, it was accepted decision on the undesirability of staying on the territory of Russia for life. Mirzalizade is a citizen of Belarus, in March of this year he received a view of Russian residence. The reason for his expulsion was that he allowed in public speech "expressions that incite hatred and enmity according to attitude towards persons of Russian nationality, humiliating their human dignity". Recall, on August 9, 2021, Mirzalizadeh was appointed administrative arrest for ten days under Art. 20.3.1 Administrative Code (excitation national hatred), and on August 11 the Moscow City Court approved this solution.
The thing is Mirzalizade, against 30 July 2021 by the Prosecutor's Office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The reason was his statements in the release of the show "Acceleration" on YouTube, which was released on March 1, 2021. In conversation with other comedians Mirzalizadeh spoke about the difficulties that "non-Slavs" face when searching for housing. At the same time, he told how with a friend, a native of the Caucasus, he threw dirty mattress, witnessed by a housemate who showed contemptuous attitude towards them. Mirzalizade noted that the mattress was contaminated by those who used it Russian residents, and also expressed the opinion that the housemate, also ethnic Russian, did not have the moral right to deliberately treat him and his friend. For this statement, the comedian faced bullying and became victim of an attack .
We guess, that there were no sufficient grounds for persecuting Mirzalizadeh. His speech, albeit somewhat provocative, was dedicated to criticism of xenophobia faced by people from the Caucasus, and in its reasoning, the comedian directly emphasized the negative attitude towards nationalism. Except In addition, a ban on entry into the country - especially a life-long one - for administrative the offense seems to us unreasonably harsh measure.
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