Thefollowing is our review of the primary and most representative events inthe misuse of Russia’s anti-extremist legislation in November 2016 . Lawmaking Thetext of the order of the Prosecutor General's Office, issued back inMarch 2016 and introducing a new procedure for banning extremistmaterials, becameknownin November.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation made minor changes to the verdict of the participants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case in St. Petersburg: it changed the punishment under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On December 13, 2016, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, having considered the appeal to the verdict on three participants in the St.

In the Vologda region, a resident of the Belozersky district was fined for posting pictures with a swastika on the Internet. In the Vologda Oblast, a resident of the Belozersky District was brought to administrative responsibility under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols, or paraphernalia or symbols confusingly similar to Nazi paraphernalia or symbols).

On December 11, 2016, during an LGBT rally in St. Petersburg, members of the National Liberation Movement hit the freelance correspondent of Kommersant, David Frenkel, accompanied by an anti-Semitic insult. The arriving police officers took the photographer to the department, refused to accept his statement, threatened to send him to a psychiatric hospital and called an ambulance. The doctor and orderlies used physical force against D.

Rostov customs seized from the cabin of the assistant captain of the Turkish ship two books included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials. This is, apparently, about the translations of Turkish theologians into Russian. On December 13, 2016, in Rostov-on-Don, customs officers seized two books included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials from the cabin of the assistant captain of a Turkish ship.

In the Krasnodar Territory, a local resident was fined for making extremist video files on a social network. In the Krasnodar Territory, a local resident was fined under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia), Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (mass distribution of extremist materials).