A Russian man has been sentenced to prison for posting a video clip of Rammstein ." Banned from social media for its pornographic content, the video was the focus of a criminal investigation that resulted in Andrei Borovikov .
After sharing the clip on the Russian social network VK in 2014, the Russian man was criminally charged and sentenced to two and a half years in prison for "producing and distributing pornography." According to BBC Russia , the investigation reported that it "found no artistic value in the clip." Despite hundreds of other articles about the same material, there is no information about lawsuits against other users.
The defense maintains that the conviction was politically motivated and intends to appeal the decision. A political activist in the opposition to Vladimir Putin , Borovikov was previously the campaign coordinator for Alexei Navalny , who is serving a sentence for insulting a World War II veteran.
“The case against Andrei Borovikov is utterly absurd. It is blatantly obvious that he is being punished solely for his activism, not for his musical taste,” declared Natalia Zviagina , director of Amnesty International in Moscow (via Metal Sucks ). “This is not the first time that Russian authorities have used a very broad definition of ‘pornography’ as a pretext to arrest their critics.”
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