Thursday, February 4, 2010

Russian editor jailed for anti-Semitic incitement

A court in the Russian city of St. Petersburg has found the editor-in-chief of the newspaper ‘Orthodox Russia’ guilty of incitement to hate against Jews and sentenced him to three years in prison. Konstantin Dushenov is to serve his sentence at a settlement colony, the court told the ‘Interfax’ news agency. Two other people accused of the same crime were handed suspended sentences of 18 months and one year respectively. World Jewish Congress

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