Russian Govt Considers Law to Jail Those Who Blaspheme

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RUSSIA---The Russian State Duma has received a bill to protect religious believers’ feelings that introduces a punishment of up to 5 years in prison. The bill was prepared jointly by all the parliamentary parties and presented by MP Yaroslav Nilov of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party. Nilov, who is also the head of the parliamentary committee for public organizations and religious unions, presented a special address to the Lower House on the subject which was almost unanimously approved by all four State Duma factions. If the new bill is approved it would amend the Criminal Code with a new article on “Insulting citizens’ religious views and feelings and desecration of the objects of the religious reverence and pilgrimage as well as those destined for conducting religious rites and ceremonies”. [link]