SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Borisova A.S. —
Right to “religious feelings”: legal aspects of protection of believers
// SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.
– 2015. – № 2.
– С. 122 - 129.
DOI: 10.7256/1339-3057.2015.2.15594 URL: https://nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=15594
Right to “religious feelings”: legal aspects of protection of believers / Right to “religious feelings”: legal aspects of protection of believers
Борисова Алена Сергеевна
студент, факультет конституционного и муниципального права, Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова
119991, Россия, г. Москва, ул. Ленинские Горы, 1
Borisova Alyona Sergeevna
Student, department of Constitutional and Municipal Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Meshcheryakova A. F..
(2021)
Russia: The Path to Secularism or the Clericalization of Society and the State?. Lex Russica
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DOI: 10.17803/1729-5920.2021.179.10.085-099
Аннотация: The subject of this research is the competitive analysis of the approaches of the European Court of Human Rights, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and Venice Commission towards the notion of “religious feelings” and the necessary level of its protection by the government. A special attention is given to the essence of the concept of religious feelings and whether or not it is possible to give a legal definition to this notion, which is the reason for an assessment of the comparability between Article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on insulting the religious feelings of believers, with the European standards in the area od requirements for legal certainty. The main conclusion is that it is impossible to set a normative definition for “religious feelings”. The author justifies the need for a clear delineation of incitement of hate and intolerance by difference of religion, and insulting the feelings of believers, including blasphemy and sacrilege, as well as the reasonableness of decriminalization of “insult of religious feelings of believers”.
Ключевые слова:
religion, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, blasphemy, religious feelings, European Court, Venice Commission, criminal responsibility, legal certainty, decriminalization
Abstract: The subject of this research is the competitive analysis of the approaches of the European Court of Human Rights, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and Venice Commission towards the notion of “religious feelings” and the necessary level of its protection by the government. A special attention is given to the essence of the concept of religious feelings and whether or not it is possible to give a legal definition to this notion, which is the reason for an assessment of the comparability between Article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on insulting the religious feelings of believers, with the European standards in the area od requirements for legal certainty. The main conclusion is that it is impossible to set a normative definition for “religious feelings”. The author justifies the need for a clear delineation of incitement of hate and intolerance by difference of religion, and insulting the feelings of believers, including blasphemy and sacrilege, as well as the reasonableness of decriminalization of “insult of religious feelings of believers”.
Keywords:
criminal responsibility, Venice Commission, European Court, insult of religious feelings, blasphemy, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, religion, decriminalization, legal certainty
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