Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky Court partially satisfied the claim of comedian Idrak Mirzalizade, who challenged the Interior Ministry’s decision to ban him from staying in Russia for life. Now the life sentence should be replaced with a reasonable one. This was announced by the lawyer Sergei Badamshin, a little later this was confirmed by the press service of the court.
“We partially satisfied our claim in terms of a” life sentence “, obliged the Ministry of Internal Affairs to establish a reasonable term instead of a life sentence,” Mr. Badamshin wrote in his Telegram channel from the courtroom. The official statement of the court says that the decision of the police department of August 27, 2021 was declared illegal “in terms of restricting entry to the Russian Federation”, the court ordered the “Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to establish a reasonable period of undesirability of Mirzalizada’s stay” in Russia.
Mr. Badamshin published the text of the message presented to the court by the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as evidence of the undesirability of the person of Idrak Mirzalizade in the Russian Federation. The printout of the text of the appeal is certified by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the author of the appeal is a resident of the Perm Territory. “I warmly welcome the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to expel an Azerbaijani standard-performer with a surname ending in“ zada ”, who has offended the Russians, and therefore Russia! You live in Russia, eat Russian bread, drink Russian water – don’t offend Russians and Russia. If the Russians are g ** but, why did you come from Belarus to Russia? Go to your Azerbaijan, why have we got a shit here! ” – says the document, which the Ministry of Internal Affairs, according to the lawyer, presented to the court as an argument in support of its decision to ban entry.
The 29-year-old comedian Idrak Mirzalizade is a citizen of Belarus, the son of a publicist, entrepreneur and philanthropist of Talysh origin Kakhin Abilov (Mirzalizade), who died in Minsk in May 2020 at the age of 52. At the end of August 2021, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation recognized the stay of Mr. Mirzalizade in Russia as life-long undesirable in connection with an extremely controversial fragment of one of the episodes of the humorous show “Acceleration” on YouTube, which some users considered offensive. According to the police, the author made expressions that incite hatred and enmity towards ethnic Russians.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs considered Mr. Mirzalizade’s stay in the country “threatening public order, the rights and legitimate interests of others.” By this time, Mr. Mirzalizade had spent ten days in a special detention center for inciting ethnic hatred (Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code). On September 7, he appealed against the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ban entry for life. On September 16, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow suspended the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the undesirability of the comedian’s stay in Russia. The ban of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been suspended until the entry into force of the court decision.
More details about the case – in the article “Kommersant” “For a joke excommunicated from the country for life.”
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