Religious freedom, Russian style – “All right Russia!”

A Russian man may face jail time for denying God’s existence in an online discussion forum.

Viktor Krasnov, who wrote, “There is no God,” on the social network VKontakte in 2014, is on trial in Stavropol, in southern Russia. He is being prosecuted under a controversial 2013 law, known as Article 148, that criminalizes acts that insult people’s religious feelings and beliefs, his lawyer, Andrei Sabinin, told Agence France-Presse. If convicted, he faces up to a year in prison or a fine of 300,000 rubles ($4,065). MORE