Russia’s use of “extremism” laws to prosecute nonviolent dissent is best known through Pussy Riot’s Dance Seen Around The World in Moscow’s main Christian Orthodox Cathedral, which yielded some of its participants two-year prison terms.
On August 15, a district court in Moscow issued a verdict against Maxim “The Hatchet” Martsinkevich, perhaps Russia’s most famous right-wing “activist” who was found guilty on the charges of extremism (article 282, part 2a) for inciting national hatred and making armed threats. Mr. Martsinkevich will spend the next five years of his life in the harshest penal colonies of Russia.
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Source: The Huffington Post
