A 2017 report by Human Rights Watch, an international human rights monitoring organization, documenting Russia's expansion of laws restricting online and offline expression, including the 2013 amendment to Criminal Code Article 148 criminalizing insult to religious feelings, with its statutory text and a record of prosecutions and sentences.
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Tier two: a long-established, internationally recognized human rights monitoring organization whose 2017 report quotes the amended Criminal Code Article 148 in full and documents specific prosecutions and outcomes, methodologically rigorous but advocacy-oriented rather than a neutral government or academic text. Citation
PublisherHuman Rights Watch
URLhttps://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/18/online-and-all-fronts/russias-assault-freedom-expression
Source TypeReport
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