Prosecutor General's Office is trying to expand its powers to block pre-trial sites and accounts
According to the Vedomosti newspaper, at a meeting of the Independent Human Rights Council (HRC), Alexei Zhafyarov, head of the Prosecutor General’s Office for the Supervision of the implementation of legislation on interethnic relations and countering extremist and terrorist activities, made a request to expand the powers of the prosecutor’s office in the pre-trial blocking of websites extremist.
“Agitation and propaganda of extremism and terrorism on the Internet has recently been less pronounced in the form of conscription, and more often in the form of propaganda and justification for such activities. But today there are no mechanisms that would allow us to quickly block this information, ”said Zhafyarov.
Moreover , Vladimir Makarov, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Countering Extremism, believes that the authority to evaluate and block such sites should be transferred to the prosecutors in the regions. An interdepartmental commission to counter extremism will work on this proposal.
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However, Leonid Levin, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, fears that in the regions not all prosecutors have the appropriate level of qualifications to make such decisions.
However, according to Kommersant, the HRC did not approve these proposals. “Nowadays, far more people are condemned for incitement to violence than for violent acts,” said Alexander Verkhovsky, head of the Sova Center.
“It's good that we learned about them at the preparatory stage, and not when these initiatives were submitted to the State Duma,” says the member of the HRC Ilya Shablinsky.
Another member of the HRC, Kirill Kabanov, proposed not to rush for three months "together with law enforcement agencies to analyze the causes and rise of extremism, especially religious, and prepare a report to the president." The board has arranged such a decision.
RBC reports that the Prosecutor General’s Office also requests that it be given the authority to block accounts used to raise funds for extremist activities.
“This is our joint proposal with Rosfinmonitoring. Our law does not provide for the blocking of bank details. But the point is to block the site where the details are printed, if the details cannot be blocked, can the funds be taken and used for illegal purposes? ”Said Denis Markov, deputy head of the information and methodological department of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
“Agitation and propaganda of extremism and terrorism on the Internet has recently been less pronounced in the form of conscription, and more often in the form of propaganda and justification for such activities. But today there are no mechanisms that would allow us to quickly block this information, ”said Zhafyarov.
Moreover , Vladimir Makarov, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Countering Extremism, believes that the authority to evaluate and block such sites should be transferred to the prosecutors in the regions. An interdepartmental commission to counter extremism will work on this proposal.
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However, Leonid Levin, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, fears that in the regions not all prosecutors have the appropriate level of qualifications to make such decisions.
However, according to Kommersant, the HRC did not approve these proposals. “Nowadays, far more people are condemned for incitement to violence than for violent acts,” said Alexander Verkhovsky, head of the Sova Center.
“It's good that we learned about them at the preparatory stage, and not when these initiatives were submitted to the State Duma,” says the member of the HRC Ilya Shablinsky.
Another member of the HRC, Kirill Kabanov, proposed not to rush for three months "together with law enforcement agencies to analyze the causes and rise of extremism, especially religious, and prepare a report to the president." The board has arranged such a decision.
RBC reports that the Prosecutor General’s Office also requests that it be given the authority to block accounts used to raise funds for extremist activities.
“This is our joint proposal with Rosfinmonitoring. Our law does not provide for the blocking of bank details. But the point is to block the site where the details are printed, if the details cannot be blocked, can the funds be taken and used for illegal purposes? ”Said Denis Markov, deputy head of the information and methodological department of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/289114/
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