Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Recent Legal Actions against Extremism

Russian law enforcement authorities have invoked legislation against political and religious extremism in a number of recent cases:

The head of Russia's Council of Muftis was warned that inviting a member of a Turkish religious movement that has been declared extremist in Russia to a conference in Moscow was illegal.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1310063&print=true

A newspaper in the Far East, Arsenevskie Vesti, was warned that its publication of Nazi symbols to illustrate that municipal authorities that overcharge residents for utilities act like military occupiers was illegal.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1303281&print=true

Prosecutors in Samara Region withdrew a case against the feature film "Russia 88," which portrays the lives of a group of skinheads, but federal prosecutors are reviewing the film and considering whether to take legal action against it.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1303406&print=true

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