Seven Convicted In Murder Of Russian Rights Activist
Russia -- Timur Kacharava - russian killed young antifashist. Photo from site http://stop-it.narod.ru Timur Kacharava was stabbed to death in 2005 (Public domain) August 1, 2007 -- A jury in St. Petersburg has found seven people, including three minors, guilty of involvement in the murder of a campaigner against hate crimes.
The activist, Timur Kacharava, and a friend were stabbed to death in St. Petersburg in November 2005.
The jury found one of the seven defendants guilty of murdering Kacharava. The others were found guilty of committing violence and inciting ethnic hatred.
Russia has seen a surge in racially motivated crime in recent years. On July 31, the chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia condemned the spread of racist ideology in Russia, and called on authorities to do more to combat hate crimes.
Russia -- Map, undated (RFE/RL) August 1, 2007 -- Russia's human rights ombudsman, Vladimir Lukin, has said he will investigate the case of an opposition activist who says she is being held against her will in a Murmansk psychiatric clinic.
Larisa Arap, a member of the United Civic Front opposition movement, says she is being held at the institution as a reprisal from health workers for negative articles she published in a newspaper. Arap had alleged that patients at another local psychiatric clinic were beaten and sexually abused.
Arap is the head of the Murmansk branch of the United Civic Front. AP quoted a spokeswoman for the movement, Marina Litvinovich, as saying that Arap's detention "smacks of the Soviet-era practice of locking dissenters in psychiatric clinics."
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