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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
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:12AM (7 children)
In fact islam has nothing to do with it.
There just isn't a christian minority of equivalent size and status in his country.
Its just standard xenophobia. If they were christians or jews he would be just as horrid towards them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @10:11AM (5 children)
I'm unaware of the Christian or Jewish equivalent of ISIS... (in before "muh Palestinians": the Six Day War)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @10:18AM (4 children)
He's not going after ISIS.
He's going after a minority group in the country.
Christian ISIS: The Lord's Resistance Army
Jewish ISIS: Pricetag Attacks
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @10:31AM (3 children)
I don't know much about the former; the latter is absolutely pathetic as a stand-in for a Jewish ISIS.
War on behalf of Islam is a worldwide problem. [thereligionofpeace.com] There's definitely good reason to not want people who voluntarily self-identify as such around.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @11:11AM (2 children)
Oh, you are one of those nutjobs who gets his knowledge of islam from idiots.
You should just lead with "I'm an ignorant bigot" and save us all the time.
Because none of that shit is relevant to buddhism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @11:17AM (1 child)
You posted no argument, merely insults. Your insults do not invalidate historical facts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:15AM
Ad hominem and no arguments. Then it seems the fact that Islam is a hostile belief system stands because that is not counter argumented in any serious way. ;)
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday May 01 2017, @03:13PM
Yeah, but Hindu people make up 80% of the population.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"