Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Russia

Members Of Russian Skinhead Group Jailed

A Skinhead protest in Russia (file photo) (AFP)

14 December 2005 -- A Russian court convicted six members of a radical youth group of inciting racial and interethnic hatred and sentenced them to prison terms of up to three years.

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December 14, 2005

The members of the Mad Crowd (Bezumnaya Tolpa) group were accused of beating up foreigners, including people from the Caucasus, in a series of attacks in 2002 and 2003.

The St. Petersburg city court sentenced five of the defendants to between two and three years in a penal colony. One defendant was given a suspended sentence.

Today's ruling comes less than a week after the court in St. Petersburg sentenced the leader of another skinhead group that used to beat up people from the Caucasus to six years in prison.

(lenta.ru/Interfax)

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