16 June 2004 08:51
Russia: Court upbraids procuracy over controversial religious exhibition
Moscow, 16 June: Moscow's Taganskiy court today referred the criminal case against Yuriy Samodurov, director of
the Andrey Sakharov museum and public centre, his employee Lyudmila Vasilovskaya and artist Anna Mikhalchuk back to the
central administrative district procuracy.
They are charged with stirring up ethnic enmity in connection with the exhibition they had organized, called Beware:
Religion!
The court ordered all violations which had been allowed to find their way into the indictment to be removed within
five days.
Yesterday the accused and their defence team entered a plea that the indictment had been compiled in violation of the
Code of Criminal Procedure and that it is non-specific.
Apart from that the accused stated they "do not understand what the specific charges are".
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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