APPLICATION FOR CONDUCTING "ACTION OF PROTEST AGAINST PUBLICATIONS OFFENDING RELIGIOUS FEELINGS" SUBMITTED TO MOSCOW CITY HALL
Portal-credo.ru, 17 January 2015
An application for conducting an "Action of protest against publications offending religious feelings," in which, according to the expectations of its organizers, 100,000 persons will participate, has been submitted to Moscow city hall, the blog Snob reported on 16 January, citing a statement by the Muslim rights advocate Ali Charinskii.
It is planned to conduct the action on Academician Sakharov Prospect on 25 January. Ali Charinskii reported that believers of other confessions who also have been offended by publications in news media will be summoned to the action. Charinskii declined to specify just which specific publications he was talking about, adding that everybody who has followed the news knows what he is talking about and has seen that not only Muslims have been insulted in these publications.
In addition, the Muslim rights advocate explained that on Friday Muslims are required to conduct collective worship. He said that on 16 January "up to 100,000 Muslims" should come out onto the streets of Moscow for conducting this worship service, since they all will not be able to be accommodated in a mosque. Charinskii urged Muslims not to give in to possible provocations on this day. [. . .]
On 19 January in Grozny and 18 January in Mikhachkala a rally in sign of protest against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad will be held. Organizers of the Dagestan event hope that the government of France will apologize to Muslims for the actions of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Vitaly Milonov, a deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, on 15 January asked Roskomnadzor to enter the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which published caricatures of religious leaders, into the list of extremist literature that is prohibited in Russia, since it "inflames inter-religious strife" and its publication "leads to the escalation of violence." [. . .] (tr. by PDS, posted 17 January 2015)
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