Moscow’s Tverskoy Court has scheduled hearings of the Prosecutor General’s Office demand for banning Innocence of Muslims film for October 1.
“In order to handle the request swiftly and to cut the process, the court has set the hearings for October 1,” the court’s press secretary, Alexandra Berezina, told Interfax.
Reports said earlier that the court hearings had earlier been set for October 17.
Made in the United States, the 14-minute Innocence of Muslims trailer provoked a wave of attacks on U.S embassies in Muslim countries after it was posted on the Internet on September 11, 2012.
Islamists fired shots at the U.S. Consulate General building in Benghazi, Libya, and set it on fire on the same day. Four Americans were killed, among them Ambassador Chris Stevens. Mass rallies were also held in Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia and Palestine.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office filed a lawsuit with Moscow’s Tverskoy Court, demanding that the film be qualified as extremist. The regional prosecutors’ offices were asked to block Internet users’ access to the websites where this video is available.