Founder of 1863x Blog Faces Five Years in Prison

In an inter­view to the Radio Svabo­da, the spokesper­son of the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee Yuliya Han­charo­va told that Eduard Palchys, 25 year old res­i­dent of the Hrod­na region, has been charged with crim­i­nal art. 130, part 1 (incit­ing racial, nation­al or reli­gious hatred) and art. 434, part 2 (spread­ing pornog­ra­phy mate­ri­als). The for­mer envis­ages an arrest of up to 6 months or depri­va­tion of free­dom for up to 5 years. The lat­ter envis­ages free­dom restric­tions from 2 to 4 years.

A foren­sic exam­i­na­tion proves that the mate­ri­als pub­lished on the web­site www.1863x.com con­tained mate­ri­als incit­ing nation­al hatred and images of porno­graph­ic char­ac­ter. Ini­tial­ly, John Sil­ver had been under recog­ni­zance, but then he fled Belarus, and was intro­duced to want­ed inter­na­tion­al list. After that, he was arrest­ed in Rus­sia and extra­dit­ed. Cur­rent­ly, he is under arrest.