THREE MEMBERS OF EXTREMIST NEOPAGAN ORGANIZATION CONVICTED IN KUBAN
Interfax-Religiia, 27 December 2017
Three residents of Krasnodar territory were convicted for participation in the activity of an extremist organization, "Spiritual and Tribal Authority of Rus" (which is prohibited in the RF), Interfax was told at the press service of the territorial prosecutor's office on Wednesday.
"The Krasnodar territorial court considered the criminal case against Pavel Ganzhul, Nikolai Andreev, and Vladimir Gerasev, who were charged on the basis of part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the RF (participation in the activity of a public association with respect to which a court has made a decision that has taken legal effect regarding the prohibition of its activity because of conducting extremist activity)," an employee of the press service said.
According to materials of the case, the defendants resided in Krasnodar and Goriachii Kliuch and were members of the inter-regional public association "Spiritual and Tribal Authority of Rus."
In May 2016, when they came to the Starominsk district department of the Federal Service of Court Bailiffs, the defendants in the case "began promoting the activity of an extremist organization and declared that their convictions did not permit them to pay any kind of charges and fines on Russian territory," the news agency's interlocutor said.
In November 2017, a Starominsk district court sentenced V. Garasev and P. Ganzhul to five months incarceration in a settlement penal colony and N. Andreev, in consideration of the condition of his health, to five months suspended incarceration with a probation term of one year.
The sentence was appealed by the defense, but the Krasnodar territorial court left it without change and the appeal of the convicts without satisfaction. (tr. by PDS, posted 27 December 2017)
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