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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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Russian Prosecutors Seek 3.5 Years for Blogger Who Played "Pokémon Go" in Church
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There *__is* intelligent life on Earth, but I leave for Texas on Monday.
(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. ;)