The Avtozavodskyi District Court of Kremenchuk sentenced a local resident who posted critical comments about the OCU on social media. According to the court, the man, criticizing the OCU on social media, incited religious hatred. This is reported on the website of the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.
“In early January 2023, a citizen, being at his place of residence, acting with direct criminal intent, with the purpose of committing actions aimed at violating the equality of citizens depending on their religious affiliation, religious beliefs, realizing the socially dangerous nature of his actions, foreseeing their socially dangerous consequences and desiring their occurrence, as well as the fact that an unlimited number of persons – Internet users have the opportunity to get acquainted with the content of the disseminated materials that he received from unidentified sources, using his electronic equipment, having an electronic page (account) registered in the public and socially-oriented Internet network “Facebook” under the network pseudonym of the user’s site, posted in the feed of this page posts and video publications with statements in them with negative information about the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, its supporters, about the Tomos, about the autocephaly of this religious organization, about the Ecumenical Patriarch, about the Ukrainian state, about the authorities of Ukraine and Montenegro, about Western countries”, – the court decision says.
As a result of the investigation, the defendant pleaded guilty and made a deal with the investigation. The court fined the accused UAH 3,400 and ordered him to return the personal property seized from the citizen.
Earlier, we reported that Svitlana Galchenko, an associate professor of the Department of World History and International Relations at Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University, was fired after her daughter, Yelyzaveta Dibrova, recorded a video on social media in which she critically described her attitude to the OCU and the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Elizaveta herself, who was a student at the same university, was expelled.
