Russia close to banning CP possession

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http://rapsinews.com/news/20141211/272760014.html
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MOSCOW, December 11 (RAPSI) – The head of Russia's Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, has proposed to make it a criminal offence to possess child pornography, RIA Novosti reported on Thursday.

Bastrykin said at a working meeting of the committee that offenders should not be blindly sent to prison, they should be subject to "large fines."

He said that the internet was "rife with child pornography."

A bill introducing criminal penalties for possession of child pornography was drafted in 2012, but it hasn't been discussed yet, Bastrykin added. He claimed that certain lawmakers in the State Duma were not interested in adoption of the bill.

Russian Children's Rights Commissioner Pavel Astakhov also took part in the meeting and pledged his support for introduction of criminal penalties for possessing child pornography.

This step would undermine business of criminal groups that are engaged in sexual exploitation of children and production of child pornography, would help prevent more serious crimes with the regard to children, Astakhov said.

Fines aren't so bad. Let's hope it's not like in Japan where you will soon be able to get a year in jail, or worse, like Europe or the US.

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So only child pornographers who are poor go to prison? :/

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I am also re-posting this here--it was originally posted in some guy's intro but I fear most people won't find it.

Members of Russia's Public Chamber have prepared several proposals on how to protect women and children from exploitation. These include criminal prosecution for possession of child pornography.

The initiatives are included in the group's annual report on the state of civil society. The authors note that at present Russia lacks a unified court procedure on all cases involving pornography. In particular, terms like 'child porn' are used in legal documents without being defined, and lawmakers' repeated efforts to do so have yielded no results.

The current Russian Criminal Code forbids the making and turnover of pornographic materials picturing minors and possession is punishable only if the court proves that the suspect wanted to somehow spread them further.

"Criminal responsibility for possession of pornography, especially if it depicts minors, is a necessary measure that reflects the community's very urgent problem. Porn dealers and entire international cartels specializing in this business cannot emerge from nowhere. And no normal person would keep such materials," co-author Elena Sutormina told Izvestia daily.

The activist, who sits in the Public Chamber and in the Presidential Council for Children's Issues, also said that prevention was of primary importance when tackling such problems.

"In this case prevention is in understanding that such actions are considered a crime punishable by prison. If we want to raise a healthy generation we should cut short any of such inclinations," Sutormina said.

She added that she understood the difficulties law enforcers would face when trying to find people in possession of banned materials, but noted that police should target dedicated groups on social networks and special websites. Many criminal groups specializing in child porn originate from internet forums.

MP Olga Alimova (Communist Party) of the State Duma Committee for Women, Family and Children, supported the initiative, noting that currently law enforcers often have to close cases of suspected child porn dealers as the suspects insisted that they kept all their stock "for personal consumption." Changes in the law would deprive the criminals of the chance to use this legal loophole, she said.

I wonder if it's mostly women pushing this.

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I have always felt surprised about how Russia's politicians claim to defend interests of children, yet CP possession being "not illegal" in much of the country. And talking about homosexuality in public being illegal.

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I have always felt surprised about how Russia's politicians claim to defend interests of children, yet CP possession being "not illegal" in much of the country. And talking about homosexuality in public being illegal.

There do seem to be some conflicting messages and priorities on show.