16 June 2004 22:49
Court returns religion case to prosecutors for clarification
MOSCOW. June 16 (Interfax) - Moscow's Tagansky District Court on Wednesday returned a criminal case against
Director of the Sakharov museum and public center Yury Samodurov, museum employee Ludmila Vasilovskaya, and artist Anna
Mikhalchuk, who have been charged with fuelling religious discord, to the prosecutor of Moscow's Central
Administrative District.
The court said it is unclear from the indictment drawn up by the
prosecutors "in what form and against what group the fuelling of
The court ordered that the prosecutor "correct all inaccuracies in the indictment" within five days.
read "This is by blood" and a portrait of a saint with an oval-shaped
hole in place of his face, so that any head could be put in place of the
religious discord was expressed."
The investigation against the museum, its director, employee, and artist was launched after the museum hosted an
exhibition titled "Beware: Religion" between January 14-18, 2004.
Among the exhibits were, in particular, an icon depicting Jesus Christ against the background of an advertisement for
Coca Cola that
head.
The investigation came to the conclusion that the exhibition was aimed at "publicly and vividly expressing a
humiliating and offensive attitude towards the Christian religion on the whole and against Orthodox Christianity and the
Russian Orthodox Church in particular, and also towards Orthodox religious symbols." [RU EUROPE ASIA EEU EMRG REL
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