Russian prosecutors requested a 3½ year prison sentence Friday for a blogger charged with inciting religious hatred for playing "Pokemon Go" in a church.
Prosecutors made the request as the trial of Ruslan Sokolovsky, 22, wrapped up in the city of Yekaterinburg. A judge said a verdict in the case would be issued May 11.
Sokolovsky posted a video on his blog showing him playing the smartphone game in a church built on the supposed spot where the last Russian tsar and his family were killed. He has been in detention since October.
He is charged with inciting religious hatred. It is the same offense that sent two women from the Pussy Riot punk collective to prison for two years in 2012.
Source: ABC News
Video: YouTube
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:06PM (2 children)
Most churches don't give a fuck if someone walks in. Or stands around using a smartphone for a couple of minutes. He is being punished for publishing a political video. Orthodox Christianity obviously helps Putin out by giving the vodka and krokodil addled Russian people something to live for in their terrible country.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:52PM
Orthodox Christianity obviously helps Putin out by giving the vodka and krokodil addled Russian people something to live for in their terrible country.
It is a lot more than that. The Russian Orthodox Church is a tool of the state. They rolled over for Putin and now he owns them. That's what Pussy Riot was protesting when they played a song in a cathedral in Moscow and subsequently got sent to the gulag.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @02:15PM
*eats Cheetos and watches Kardashians*