Social network user prosecuted for inciting ethnic hatred

11:16, 05 июля 2017, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Julia KOSTENKO

The State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan detected a user of social network «VKontakte» under the name Ahmad Asadullayev, who in his comments caused a negative reaction of some Internet users, humiliating the honor and dignity of representatives of another nationality.

As the press service of the agency reports, he, using a fake front photo actively and openly expressed a negative attitude towards representatives of another nationality and the state symbols of .

The philological and politological expertise concluded that his posts contain signs of actions aimed at inciting ethnic hatred and humiliation of national dignity.

A criminal case under the article «Incitement of national (interethnic), racial, religious or inter-regional hatred» of the Criminal Code of the was opened against Asadullayev. The investigation is under way.