TFR proposes to extend liability for inducing children to suicide – Kommersant

The official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR), Vladimir Markin, said that the Office consider it necessary to examine the issue of establishing criminal liability for inducement of children to suicide and assistance in it. Now in the Criminal Code is not the norm, allowing to hold accountable for the encouragement of suicide, if the actions of a person are no threats, cruel treatment or systematic humiliation of human dignity, stressed in the TFR.

As noted by Mr. Markin after the meeting on the prevention of juvenile suicides that took place in the TFR, the situation is aggravated by light in the online media theme of children’s suicides “like a fashion” trend “, provoking aspiration teens to imitate “. The meeting expressed the need to study the issue of consolidation of any government body monitoring function “suicide” content on the Internet.

In addition, the meeting noted the need to establish measures which have served would have an incentive to provide telecom operators and hosting service providers, “free from unlawful content.” “It was decided to set up an interdepartmental working group, which, together with the staff of MRS included representatives of the Russian Interior Ministry, Rospotrebnadzor, Roskomnadzor, the Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health of Russia”, – said Mr. Markin. According to him, within the framework of the working group will continue to discuss issues related to children’s suicides, and will be conducted study of the various proposals, reports “RIA Novosti».

Earlier Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev He said the Russian segment of the network does not need additional prohibitions in connection with the publication of the so-called group of death in the media. Legislators, IT-experts and psychologists have discussed the situation with children’s suicides in Russia, which drew attention to the investigation of “Novaya Gazeta”: out of it followed that dozens of children killed themselves, came under the influence of a group of unidentified criminals operating in the social networks. Mr. Marinichev suggested not to resort to new restrictions and to allocate money for school administration Wi-Fi-networks, and technical training for parents.

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