What punishment is threatened for extremism?

Extremism (extremist activity) is the planning, organization, preparation, and commission of encroachments on the independence, territorial integrity, sovereignty, and foundations of the constitutional system, and public safety through:

violent change of the constitutional system and (or) territorial integrity of the Republic of Belarus;

seizure or retention of state power by unconstitutional means;

creation of an extremist formation or participation in an extremist formation;

rendering assistance in carrying out extremist activity, undergoing training or other preparation for participation in such activity;

dissemination for these purposes of knowingly false information about the political, economic, social, military, or international situation of the Republic of Belarus, the legal status of citizens in the Republic of Belarus, discrediting the Republic of Belarus;

insulting for these purposes a government official in connection with the performance of his official duties, discrediting government bodies and administrations;

creation for these purposes of an illegal armed formation;

carrying out terrorist activities;

inciting racial, national, religious, or other social hatred or strife, political or ideological hatred, hatred or strife against any social group, including the commission for these purposes of unlawful acts against public order and public morality, the order of administration, life and health, personal freedom, honor and dignity of an individual, property;

organization and carrying out of mass riots, acts of vandalism associated with damage or destruction of property, seizure of buildings and structures, other actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them.based on racial, national, religious or other social enmity or hatred, political or ideological enmity, enmity or hatred towards any social group;

committing illegal actions in relation to weapons, ammunition, explosives for these purposes;

propaganda of exclusivity, superiority or inferiority of citizens based on their social, racial, national, religious or linguistic affiliation;

dissemination of extremist materials, as well as the manufacture, publication, storage or transportation of such materials for the purpose of dissemination;

rehabilitation of Nazism, propaganda or public demonstration, manufacture, dissemination of Nazi symbols and attributes, as well as storage or acquisition of such symbols or attributes for the purpose of dissemination;

obstruction of the lawful activities of state bodies, including the Central Election Commission, election commissions, referendum commissions, commissions for conducting voting on the recall of a deputy, as well as the lawful activities of officials of these bodies, commissions, committed with the use of violence, threat of its use, deception, bribery, as well as the use of violence or threat of violence against close relatives of the said officials in order to obstruct their lawful activities or to force a change in the nature of such activities or out of revenge for the performance of their official duties;

financing of extremist activities;

public calls for the organization or conduct of illegal assemblies, rallies, street processions, demonstrations or picketing for these purposes in violation of the established procedure for their organization or conduct, or involving persons in participation in such mass events through violence, threat of violence, deception or payment of remuneration, or other organization or conduct of such mass events, if their conduct resulted in the death of people, infliction of grievous bodily harm to one or more persons, or infliction of damage on a large scale due to negligence;

public calls foractions specified in paragraphs two to seventeen of this Part, as well as public justification of such actions.

Providing assistance or participation in the activities of extremist formations is prohibited in any form.

In the Republic of Belarus, administrative responsibility is established (Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus) for the distribution, production, storage, and transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity. Under the specified article, individuals who distribute information from Telegram channels and other sources recognized as extremist on the Internet, or who store such information for the purpose of its distribution, are prosecuted.

For example, in a case where a citizen transmits any information for its placement on an extremist channel, they are actually participating in the production of extremist products, as all information posted on a channel recognized as extremist is also considered extremist.

The current version of the Republican List of Extremist Materials is available on the website of the Ministry of Information (http://mininform.gov.by/documents/respublikanskiy-spisok-ekstremistskikh-materialov/).

In accordance with the sanction of the specified article, an individual may be fined from ten to thirty basic units, subjected to community service, or administrative arrest for up to 15 days, with the mandatory confiscation of the object of this administrative offense. Additionally, the confiscation of tools and means used to commit the administrative offense may also be applied.

Remember that information is the main tool of manipulation. Every internet user must be cautious and critically evaluate the information they disseminate.

Depending on the severity of the crime, criminal liability is provided for extremist actions.

Thus, for the creation of an extremist formation or leadership of such a formation, it is provided