Prosecutors in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia have filed charges of illegal incitement of ethnic and religious hatred against the editor of a local newspaper, according to a July 16, 2008 report by the RIA-Novosti news agency. The editor of Priazovsky Kray faces up to five years in prison if convicted of violating Article 282 of the criminal code for authoring an article in the May 22, 2008 edition of the paper that demonized Chasidic Jews.

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