04 October 2010, 22:50
MCC upholds sentence to organizers of "Forbidden Art" exhibition
Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the sentence passed earlier to Yuri Samodurov, ex-director of the Sakharov museum and social centre, and Andrei Erofeyev, former head of the division of newest trends of the Tretyakov Gallery, organizers of the exhibition "Forbidden Art-2006", fined for inciting religious hatred and enmity.
The representative of the public prosecution has expressed, in the course of today's consideration of the complaint, his agreement with the verdict and asked to uphold it.
The cassation complaint was rejected; thus the sentence has come into force, and the convicts shall pay the adjudged fines in the near future, the "Interfax" reports.
As reported by the RAPSI (Russian Agency of Legal and Judicial Information), advocate Anna Stavitskaya, who presented the defendants' interests, has treated the verdict as illegal and unjustified and declared her intention to appeal the verdict in the order of supervision.
