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No independent-praise terrorism crime quoted. Criminal Code art. 130 is incitement to racial, national, religious, or other social enmity — overlay, not Israel §24.

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    Independent-praise crime?
    No independent-praise terrorism crime quoted. Criminal Code art. 130 is incitement to racial, national, religious, or other social enmity — overlay, not Israel §24.
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    статья 130

    Уголовный кодекс Республики Беларусь

    Target
    Intentional acts aimed at inciting racial, national, religious, or other social enmity or discord on those grounds
    Test
    Part 1 is the base speech/incitement cell. Violence or official-capacity is part 2. Group commission or grave consequences is part 3. « Other social affiliation » is defined in the note (sex, age, profession, occupation, place of residence, or other socio-group identification).
    Max
    Fine, arrest, or restriction of liberty or imprisonment for up to 5 years (part 1)
    Умышленные действия, направленные на возбуждение расовой, национальной, религиозной либо иной социальной вражды или розни по признаку расовой, национальной, религиозной, языковой или иной социальной принадлежности, – наказываются штрафом, или арестом, или ограничением свободы на срок до пяти лет, или лишением свободы на тот же срок.

    Official Russian, pravo.by consolidation of the Criminal Code of 9 July 1999 n° 275-Z, art. 130 part 1 as retitled and recast (including Law n° 358-Z of 2016). Working English: intentional acts aimed at inciting racial, national, religious, or other social enmity or discord on grounds of racial, national, religious, linguistic, or other social affiliation — fine, arrest, or restriction of liberty or imprisonment for up to 5 years.

    Cite · UK RB art. 130 · as of 2026-09-05

    • Do not treat art. 130 as Israel §24.
    • Overlay. The extremism law and art. 130-1 (rehabilitation of Nazism) / 130-2 (denial of the genocide of the Belarusian people) sit alongside and are not this quote.
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