Under the procedural guidance of the Galician District Prosecutor’s Office of the city of Lviv, a local resident was notified of suspicion based on the facts of the distribution and public use of symbols of the communist totalitarian regime (Part 1 of Article 436-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The investigation established that the man from Lviv systematically posted publications on his own page in the banned Odnoklassniki social network, which contain signs of propaganda of the communist totalitarian regime and images of communist symbols. In total, the man shared more than a hundred images with prohibited symbols.
The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings is carried out by the investigators of the JI police department No. 1 of the LRUP No. 1 GU of the NP in the Lviv region, under the operational support of the cybercrime countermeasures department in the Lviv region of the cyber police department of the National Police of Ukraine.
Note: in accordance with Art. 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until his guilt is proven in a legal manner and established by a court verdict.
Department of Information Policy
Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office