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    TEENS JAILED FOR RACIST ATTACKS

    Melbourne Herald Sun
    September 23, 2008 02:47am
    Australia

    A RUSSIAN court jailed members of a teenage gang for terms of up to
    10 years after the youths were found guilty of racist attacks during
    August and September 2007 in which two people died.

    The 13 teenagers were Moscow school students when they attacked people
    who did not look European, a spokeswoman for the court said. Twelve
    of the gang were under 18 when they committed the crimes.

    She said the accused had been found guilty of about 10 racist
    attacks. The two dead victims were a 46-year-old chess master from
    Russia's Siberian region of Yakutia and a 23-year-old violin player
    of Armenian origin.

    A 19-year-old was sentenced to a maximum term of 10 years in jail, the
    court said. Prosecutors believe he took part in the two killings. Two
    underage defendants were given a minimum term of three years.

    The youths used knives and baseball bats to attack strangers in Moscow
    streets, parks and trains and then posted mobile phone pictures of
    the assaults on Internet sites.

    The Internet images were the main evidence used by prosecutors against
    the defendants in court, Russia's state Vesti-24 channel said.

    It ran some of the sequences featuring groups of teenagers chasing
    darker-skinned victims, sometimes knocking them to the ground and
    violently kicking them. A separate one showed a youngster chasing a
    man with a hammer.

    Several teenagers were also shown attacking a pregnant woman walking
    with a little child in a pram.

    Russian courts are currently hearing several cases of racist groups,
    including one involving a teenage gang accused of 20 premeditated
    and 12 attempted murders.

    Local anti-fascist campaigners have repeatedly urged the authorities
    to tackle rising xenophobia and neo-Nazism in Russia, which lost
    millions of its citizens fighting fascism during World war II.
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