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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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Your reasoning is excellent -- it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:28AM
China had no problem dealing with Tibet that way.
Lolwut? Sure China had no problem doing that to Tibet.
The results, on the other hand, have been less than optimal.
and to be humble in their treatment of others,
You propose cultural genocide to promote the humble treatment of others?
Irony fucking overload.