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Russia: Forum Commenter Receives Suspended Sentence for Anti-Semitic Comments

Written byAlexey Sidorenko
Posted 1 December 2010 14:29 GMT

Vladimir Li'yurov, forum commenter from Komi Republic, has been sentenced to 6 months of suspended sentence, Sova-center reported. The court ruled out that Vladimir (aka forum-user “anti-Jew”) had been publicly inciting hatred towards an ethnic group at the comments section of the local online media outlet. Li'yurov, however, denied the accusations.

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