Paul Goble
Staunton, Oct. 22 – A year ago, having earlier denounced the international LGBT+ movement as extremist, the Russian Supreme Court did the same thing with the International Satanist Movement. Now, the First Department media group has gained access to a new document in which the court describes this non-existent group is about.
On its telegram channel, First Department reports, it has gained access to an as-yet-unpublished court decision describing how what things allow Moscow to identify a group as satanist and how this non-existent group is linked to other movements, many of which are real (https://t.me/deptone/18070 reposted at echofm.online/news/pervyj-otdel-uznal-kakuyu-simvoliku-verhovnyj-sud-schitaet-sataninskoj).
According to the journalists, the Russian Supreme Court declares in its unpublished paper that the symbols of the International Satanist movement include “an inverted Christian cross, an inverted pentagram (two rays up) and an image of Baphomet, a human-like creature with a horned animal head, most often a goat or a ram. It also described modifications of this symbol: a pentagram in a single or double circle, a seven-pointed sign and the number 666.”
The court also said in this decision document that “the Satanist movement is closely connected with the manifestations of radical nationalism and neo-Nazism,” as can be seen by the fact that followers of Satanism use the swastika, stylyzed eagers, runic signs, and SS symbolism.”
What makes all this so dangerous, human rights lawyers say, is that it gives Moscow the opportunity to punish people who may be completely unaware that that the symbols they use are forbidden since the specific content of the ban on the non-existent organization has not been made public.
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