The Moscow Prosecutor has proven undaunted by previous failures and is once again seeking the imprisonment of Natalya Sharina, Director of the Ukrainian Literature Library in Moscow for so-called ‘incitement to enmity’. The new indictment is due to reach the courts shortly, though is likely to also be sent back for clarification as to what ‘extremist act’ Sharina is supposed to have committed. The lack of any substances to the charges has not prevented court after court from extending Sharina’s very strict house arrest for almost a year.
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Head of the library of Ukrainian literature Natalia Sharina waits for her judgment in the Tagansky court in Moscow, on October 30, 2015 after been suspected of inciting ethnic hatred and violating human dignity by distributing books by Ukrainian ultranationalist author, Dmytro Korchynsky, whose works are banned in Russia. Natalia Sharina faces imprisonment in Russia for allegedly inciting ethnic hatred, has suffered health problems in custody, her lawyers said on October 30. (AFP)
