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SUSPECTS IN MURDER OF ARMENIAN BOY ARRESTED IN MOSCOW REGION
RIA Novosti, Russia
Dec 8 2006
MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti) - Prosecutors in the Moscow Region
said Friday they had arrested four suspects in the murder of an
Armenian boy last month.
Narek Kocharyan, 15, an Armenian citizen, was killed November 11 at
the Ivanteyevka railway station in the Moscow Region.
"The murder has been solved. Four young Ivanteyevka residents have
been arrested," the Moscow Region Prosecutor's Office said, adding
they have been charged under the provisions of Statute 111/4 of the
Russian Criminal Law Code (infliction of grievous bodily harm leading
to death).
Authorities have been generally reluctant to treat attacks on
non-Russians as race-hate crimes, portraying them instead as acts
of hooliganism.
Russia has seen a wave of apparently racially motivated attacks on
non-whites in recent years, including an explosion at the Cherkizovsky
market in northeastern Moscow August 21, which killed 11 people
and injured at least 49. St. Petersburg has also been a focus for
race-hate attacks: in September, an Indian student was stabbed to
death in the city, and a Sudanese national was attacked.
RIA Novosti, Russia
Dec 8 2006
MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti) - Prosecutors in the Moscow Region
said Friday they had arrested four suspects in the murder of an
Armenian boy last month.
Narek Kocharyan, 15, an Armenian citizen, was killed November 11 at
the Ivanteyevka railway station in the Moscow Region.
"The murder has been solved. Four young Ivanteyevka residents have
been arrested," the Moscow Region Prosecutor's Office said, adding
they have been charged under the provisions of Statute 111/4 of the
Russian Criminal Law Code (infliction of grievous bodily harm leading
to death).
Authorities have been generally reluctant to treat attacks on
non-Russians as race-hate crimes, portraying them instead as acts
of hooliganism.
Russia has seen a wave of apparently racially motivated attacks on
non-whites in recent years, including an explosion at the Cherkizovsky
market in northeastern Moscow August 21, which killed 11 people
and injured at least 49. St. Petersburg has also been a focus for
race-hate attacks: in September, an Indian student was stabbed to
death in the city, and a Sudanese national was attacked.