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    Interfax News Agency, Russia
    May 7 2008


    Russia: Girl sentenced to 20 months in jail for race attack


    Krasnodar, 7 May: The Pervomayskiy district court in Krasnodar has
    handed down a guilty verdict to a local 16-year-old girl who was
    accused of beating a female Kenyan student and inflicting a knife
    wound on an Armenian citizen on the grounds of racial hatred.

    A court representative told Interfax-Yug that the girl was sentenced
    to one year and eight months of imprisonment in a juvenile
    correctional facility and to a R3,000 [127 dollars] fine payable to
    the state.

    In addition, the victims had filed civil lawsuits which were also
    sustained by the court. The defendant will have to pay R20,000 to the
    beaten Kenyan student and R40,000 to the stabbed Armenian.

    The girl accompanied her actions with the shouts that denigrated the
    honour and dignity of the victims.

    The investigation qualified the defendant's actions under Article 116
    Part 2 Paragraph B of the Russian Criminal Code (beating someone on
    the grounds of racial hatred) and Article 111 Part 2 Paragraph E of
    the Russian Criminal Code (intentional infliction of grave harm to the
    health that endangers a person's life, on the grounds of racial
    hatred).

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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