Three residents of Krasnoyarsk, Russia were put on trial on charges of having vandalized a Jewish cemetery, according to a May 13, 2008 report by the Jewish.ru web site. The three defendants face the rarely applied charge of "damaging tombstones motivated by ethnic hatred"--most cemetery vandals are charged simply with "hooliganism." The three suspects allegedly vandalized the cemetery on the night of October 7, 2007 after getting drunk. One of the defendants may face confinement in a psychiatric institution in addition to the criminal charges he faces.

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