Dozens of people are being tried in Belarus under an administrative article for the so-called "dissemination of extremist materials".

This is how authorities interpret subscriptions to independent publications and Telegram channels.

But in Krupki, the man was acquitted, such signatures were found on the defendant, but he was not convicted.

The administrative case was considered by the Krup district court (Minsk region).

According to the report, a soldier from a military unit in the village of Bobr, Krupsky district was prosecuted under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ("distribution of extremist materials"), because he had subscriptions to "My Country Belarus" and "Typichny Borisov" in the social network "Vkontakte" on his phone. ", which are included in the so-called list of extremist materials.

At the court, the soldier "did not admit guilt in committing the offense, he explained that he really had subscriptions.

However, he had no intention of distributing them, he did not know that these were "extremist materials", because the subscription was made about five years ago.

I haven't looked at the content of these communities for a long time."

The court decided that the case should be terminated on the basis that "the actions do not contain the elements of an administrative offense."

Honor 90 phone was returned to the soldier.