In the State Duma suggested to cancel the 282 th article of the Criminal Code of extremism – RBC

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Three MPs from the Liberal Democratic Party in the State Duma introduced a bill to declare article 282 as invalid. The authors of the initiative point out that the article is mainly used “to bring to justice the Russian nation»

The deputies Alexei Didenko, Mikhail Degtyarev and Ivan Sukharev (LDPR) introduced to the State Duma a bill offering to recognize as invalid the article 282 of the Criminal Code “inciting hatred or hostility, and humiliation of human dignity” for the following reasons. The document is registered in the bill introduced in the lower house of Parliament.

The proposal to declare Article lapsed members explained Mr. echetkostyu prescribed to her crime. In accordance with Article 282 “Any narrated an anecdote about a Russian, Chukchi, Jews or blondes in the media or social networking can be regarded as a wrongful act” aimed at inciting hatred or enmity and humiliation on grounds of sex, race, nationality The authors of the bill say. In addition, because of the broad wording of Article 282 of the Criminal Code « is used against citizens and for political purposes” and «legalizes political censorship”, the MPs say.

«A very large number of people convicted under this article are ethnic Russian,” – as the authors of the bill in the explanatory memorandum indicates. According to them, Article 282 basically is used “to bring to justice the Russian nation (Russian patriots and public figures), even called” Russian art. “For that in a society

The MPs propose to exempt from punishment of persons convicted under article 282 of the Criminal Code, to terminate the investigation and trials of suspects and defendants in this article follows from the text of the bill.

Now article 282 of the Criminal Code It provides a maximum penalty of imprisonment for up to four years for actions aimed at inciting hatred or hostility, humiliation of the dignity of a person or group of persons on grounds of sex, race, nationality, language, origin, religion, membership of any social group, committed publicly or through the media or the Internet. If these same actions were committed with violence or threat of violence, through abuse of office or an organized group, the maximum term of imprisonment will be five years.

The three authors of the bill on the recognition of 282 lapsed – from the LDPR. In particular, Mikhail Degtyarev, who took fifth place at the Moscow mayoral election in 2013, was the architect of a bill to ban Russians to use dollars (withdrawn by the author) and the replacement of the Russian tricolor on the so-called imperial black-yellow-white flag (the relevant committee suggested to reject it in the first reading). Didenko has co-authored bills to postpone the start of the school year on 1 October (the first reading has not yet taken place) and the fines for participants of “carousels” in the elections (rejected). Ivan Sukharev proposed set fines of up to 1 million rubles. for the sale of products in respect of which Russia imposed an embargo, the bill did not support the relevant committee.