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Court fines the Forbidden Art 2006 exhibition organizers

Moscow, July 12, Interfax - The Tagansky Court in Moscow has ordered former Sakharov Center director Yury Samodurov to pay a 200,000 ruble fine.

The second defendant in the Forbidden Art case, former head of the Tretyakov Gallery's division of contemporary movements, Andrey Yerofeyev, has been ordered by the court to pay 150,000 rubles as a fine, an Interfax correspondent said.

The indictment says that the exhibit displayed works "carrying humiliating and insulting images hostile to the Christian religion and believers." The criminal case against the organizers was initiated according to Article 282 (inciting hatred or enmity).

The defense lawyers of the exhibition organizers have appealed the verdict.

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