Sentence for reposting cartoons of Jesus Christ overturned
On October 27, the Central District Court of Sochi overturned the sentence of a local resident, Viktor Nochevnov, who was fined 50,000 rubles for reposting cartoons with Jesus Christ on the VKontakte social network. The case has been remanded for retrial. Nochevnov was left under house arrest. Alexander Popkov, a lawyer for the Agora International Human Rights Group, who represented Nochevnov's interests, provided information about this.