Russian Faces Up to Year in Prison for Denying Existence of God, A Russian faces up to a year in bastille for adage "there is no God" during an altercation on amusing media, his attorneys said Wednesday.
Viktor Krasnov aswell wrote the "Bible is a accumulating of Jewish bogie tales" during the altercation on European amusing networking website Vk.com in 2014, advocate and human-rights activist Pavel Chikov acquaint on his Facebook page.
Krasnov, whose behind posts accept been deleted, is on balloon in his built-in city-limits of Stavropol in southern Russia, according to the bounded magistrate's website. Charges were filed in the abatement of 2015 and the balloon began on Monday, according to his lawyer.
Russia's Investigative Committee — the agnate of the FBI — answerable Krasnov with "offending believers' feelings," which was criminalized in Russia afterwards a belled achievement by jailbait bandage Pussy Riot in Moscow's Basilica of Christ the Savior in February 2012. Two bandage associates were confined in 2012 for assuming an anti-Vladimir Putin song at the cathedral.Anti-government account website Grani.ru appear Tuesday that Krasnov was forcibly subjected to a month-long psychiatric analysis during the investigation. He was was declared sane, according to the account website.
"I don't apperceive how you can amusement amusing networking posts seriously," Grani.ru cited Krasnov as saying. "Looks like we charge a law to assure atheists' animosity too."
Krasnov and Chikov were not anon accessible for comment.
Dozens of Internet users faced bent animality for their online action in contempo years in Russia, which was downgraded to "non-free" for the aboriginal time by Freedom House rights babysitter in its 2015 chapter of the "Freedom on the Net" rating.
Viktor Krasnov aswell wrote the "Bible is a accumulating of Jewish bogie tales" during the altercation on European amusing networking website Vk.com in 2014, advocate and human-rights activist Pavel Chikov acquaint on his Facebook page.
Krasnov, whose behind posts accept been deleted, is on balloon in his built-in city-limits of Stavropol in southern Russia, according to the bounded magistrate's website. Charges were filed in the abatement of 2015 and the balloon began on Monday, according to his lawyer.
Russia's Investigative Committee — the agnate of the FBI — answerable Krasnov with "offending believers' feelings," which was criminalized in Russia afterwards a belled achievement by jailbait bandage Pussy Riot in Moscow's Basilica of Christ the Savior in February 2012. Two bandage associates were confined in 2012 for assuming an anti-Vladimir Putin song at the cathedral.Anti-government account website Grani.ru appear Tuesday that Krasnov was forcibly subjected to a month-long psychiatric analysis during the investigation. He was was declared sane, according to the account website.
"I don't apperceive how you can amusement amusing networking posts seriously," Grani.ru cited Krasnov as saying. "Looks like we charge a law to assure atheists' animosity too."
Krasnov and Chikov were not anon accessible for comment.
Dozens of Internet users faced bent animality for their online action in contempo years in Russia, which was downgraded to "non-free" for the aboriginal time by Freedom House rights babysitter in its 2015 chapter of the "Freedom on the Net" rating.
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