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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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday May 01 2017, @03:08PM
It wouldn't be a Muslim. There just aren't enough of them here and they have almost no political power in the West despite the fearmongering from the alt-right.
Talk about your damning with faint praise. "They *would* persecute me except they lack the means to do so."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"