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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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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:00PM (14 children)
The video looks to me like a misdemeanor trespass. A couple weeks of mowing grass and painting fences and assorted other "restitution" should cover the "offense". What the Russians have here is a Streisand effect. 3 1/2 years in prison isn't even a sane punishment for some smartassed kid playing video games in church.
Oh, what am I talking about. Little bastard was disrespectful toward God. Take him behind the woodshed and put a bullet in his neck.
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:06PM (2 children)
Most churches don't give a fuck if someone walks in. Or stands around using a smartphone for a couple of minutes. He is being punished for publishing a political video. Orthodox Christianity obviously helps Putin out by giving the vodka and krokodil addled Russian people something to live for in their terrible country.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:52PM
Orthodox Christianity obviously helps Putin out by giving the vodka and krokodil addled Russian people something to live for in their terrible country.
It is a lot more than that. The Russian Orthodox Church is a tool of the state. They rolled over for Putin and now he owns them. That's what Pussy Riot was protesting when they played a song in a cathedral in Moscow and subsequently got sent to the gulag.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @02:15PM
*eats Cheetos and watches Kardashians*
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Refugee from beyond on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:07PM (4 children)
Err… trespass? It’s a public place as far as I’m aware.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:56PM (3 children)
Tells you everything you need to know about runaway's own exclusionary version of christianity that he thinks a christian church would want to charge anyone with trespassing.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 01 2017, @01:08AM
Runaway says he's an agnostic. I've pressed him on this, and it turns out it specifically means he's the kind of unthinking self-centered yob who hasn't got the depth for actual theological study, rather than someone who's done a lot of comparative religion and come to the conclusion that he doesn't have enough information. But boy did he ever absorb the secular and ingroup memes from modern US Christianity.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @01:33AM (1 child)
Erm, use of the example of a smelly bum living in the middle of the church who tries to punch out anyone asking him to move or leave or clean up his "toilet area" is a simple illustration of a completely unobjectionable case for the owners of a church to charge someone with trespassing. The same is true with much less blatant examples.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:19AM
Assault and property damage are not trespass.
They are assault and property damage.
Furthermore, enlisting the police as a last resort to remove someone is not the same as charging them with a crime.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:49PM
I wonder what next video that will make it a real good Streisand effect just to tease the church and vested interests. Now that there's an itch to be scratched ;-)
(Score: 5, Informative) by butthurt on Monday May 01 2017, @12:04AM (4 children)
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
-- https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6:14-15&version=KJV [biblegateway.com]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @12:56AM (3 children)
Ah, that Jesus guy. I wonder if any Christians have heard of him?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday May 01 2017, @09:55AM (2 children)
Yes, they yell "Jesus" and kill you (or send you to jail) "in Christ's name"
So, they have heard the name, at least.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday May 01 2017, @06:02PM (1 child)
Citation very badly needed. Give one or be known as a libelous liar.
In 1942, all of America and most of the world was antifa.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday May 02 2017, @12:51AM
General:
http://time.com/4641780/trump-inauguration-faith-religion-evangelical/ [time.com]
Specific:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/15352/lefts-new-hero-christian-doctor-killing-innocent-amanda-prestigiacomo [dailywire.com]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex