LLC SIBFM v. Roskomnadzor
Case Law- Country
- Country Location
Latitud: 55.84775990443999
Longitud: 37.50146462023251
- Country Location (vinculado Case Law)
- Russia
- Decision Date
- 6 jun 2016
- Case Status
- Cerrado
- Case Outcome (Procedural)
- Affirmed Lower Court
- Case Outcome (Disposition)
- Blocking or Filtering of Information
- Keywords
- Extremist Speech
- Hate Speech
- Religion
- Satire/Parody
- Judicial Body
- Appellate Court
- Case Number
- No 4га/5-5022/2016
- Case Summary
The Moscow City Court upheld the decisions of two lower courts, which held that a humorous, digitally manipulated image of Jesus Christ was offensive to the religious feelings of Christians and contained elements of extremism. The case arose after Russia’s state-controlled media and information watchdog, the Roskomnadzor, sent a warning to an online portal, SIBFM, giving it notice that an image hosted on its site had to be taken down within 10 days because it incited extremism. The image in question was of three men in a typical Russian household setting with their faces being replaced by cut-outs of the faces of Jesus Christ, Vladimir Putin, and Alexander Pushkin.
- Case Significance
The decision does not establish a binding or persuasive precedent within its jurisdiction.
- Source Name and URL
- Columbia Global Freedom of Expression