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Six Neo-Nazis Sentenced in Moscow


(January 15, 2008)

A gang of six neo-Nazis were sentenced to widely varying prison terms in connection with a series of attacks, including a murder, according to a May 15, 2008 report by the Sova Information-Analytical Center. Facing charges including murder, robbery, hooliganism, incitement of ethnic hatred and membership in an extremist organization, the defendants received two suspended sentences, one 12 year sentence, two four year sentences, and one five year sentence. The court found them guilty of attacking a Chinese man on the Moscow metro in September 2006 while shouting racist slogans and stabbing a Krygyz victim to death the next month.


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