A criminal case was opened against a Stavropol resident under the article of insulting the memory of defenders of the fatherland

At the end of July, the Investigative Committee of the Stavropol Territory opened a criminal case under the article on insulting the memory of defenders of the fatherland (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) against a resident of the village of Temizhbeksky in the Novoaleksandrovsky urban district. The reason for the persecution was posts on social networks. Kommersant reported this with reference to the press service of the Russian Federal Security Service for the region.

reports According to investigators, in February the man published posts on one of the social networks “expressing disrespect” for Defender of the Fatherland Day and posted “materials of an extremist nature aimed at the rehabilitation of Nazism.”

• After the start of the war with Ukraine, the number of cases under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) increased sharply - presumably, security forces use this article to put pressure on those who could potentially oppose the “special operation” in Ukraine and its “denazification.” According to the SOVA Information and Analytical Center, many cases under Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code are initiated unlawfully and should be qualified under other articles of the Criminal Code or resolved within the framework of civil rather than criminal proceedings. opinion