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Novosibirsk Prosecutors Charge Four Youths With Hate Crimes Murder


(July 15, 2008)

Prosecutors in Novosibirsk, Russia charged four youths, including two middle school students, with murder motivated by ethnic hatred, according to a July 7, 2008 report by the local news service Taiga.ru. The youths allegedly beat a citizen of Turkey to death on January 12 with baseball bats. Police found a video clip that the suspects reportedly made of the attack, along with unspecified neo-Nazi items. A court date has not yet been set.


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