{"id":14069,"date":"2016-03-30T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=14069"},"modified":"2016-03-30T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T10:47:08","slug":"atheist-faces-a-year-in-prison-for-denying-the-existence-of-god-online-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/03\/30\/atheist-faces-a-year-in-prison-for-denying-the-existence-of-god-online-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA &#8211; Atheist faces a year in prison for denying the existence of God online  &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-2-7.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14043\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-2-7.jpg\" alt=\"photo-(2)\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While European countries and the US are increasingly becoming secular societies with no official religion and have abolished laws prohibiting blasphemy against Christianity, no longer \u201cofficially atheist \u201c Russia is moving in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Krasnov from southern\u00a0Russia could receive a jail sentence after he was charged with insulting the feelings of religious believers. He is being prosecuted under a controversial 2013 law that was introduced after punk art group\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2012\/mar\/06\/russian-punks-pussy-riot-putin-protest\"><em>Pussy Riots<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em> was jailed<\/a> for a performance in Moscow\u2019s main cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>The charges \u2013 which carry a maximum one-year jail sentence \u2013 centre on an internet exchange that Krasnov was involved in two years ago on a humorous local website in his hometown of Stavropol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I say that the collection of Jewish fairytales entitled the Bible is complete bullshit, that is that. At least for me,\u201d Krasnov wrote, adding later \u201cthere is no God!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the young people involved in the dispute with Krasnov then lodged a complaint against him accusing him of \u201coffending the sentiments of Orthodox believers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Krasnov, whose case began last month, spent one month in a psychiatric ward last year undergoing psychiatric examinations before he was finally deemed to be sane.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer insists \u00a0that Krasnov was \u201csimply an atheist\u201d and that he had also commented on both \u201cHalloween and Yiddish holidays\u201d in the same exchange.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While European countries and the US are increasingly becoming secular societies with no official religion and have abolished laws prohibiting blasphemy against Christianity, no longer \u201cofficially atheist \u201c Russia is moving in the opposite direction. 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