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Russian Prosecutors Seek 3.5 Years for Blogger Who Played "Pokémon Go" in Church

posted by martyb on Sunday April 30 2017, @10:07PM   
from the Was-he-having-too-much-fun? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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Original Submission

• Re:religious hatred Re:religious hatred (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday May 01 2017, @01:44PM (1 child)

  by Arik (4543) on Monday May 01 2017, @01:44PM (#502259) Journal

  In fact, the sufis of Syria were one (among many) good example of exactly what you want, until they were beheaded by IS recently.
  
  Pay close attention, the jihadis target traditional muslims as their very first priority in every case. Before infidels and sorcerers and everyone else - the very first thing when these guys take a village is they go find the Imam and they chop his head off. There's a reason for this.

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• Re:religious hatred (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:29AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:29AM (#502744)

  "Our style of Islam or your head chop-chop" ..?

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