Russia - Newspaper editor sentenced for antisemitic article

The editor of an independent newspaper in the predominately Muslim republic of Dagestan was found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred. Nabigula Dzhavatkhanov, editor of Mnenie Naroda received a suspended sentence of one and a half years for his article "An Answer to the Zionists." An expert commission found that the article incites "hatred towards the Jewish ethnos" and "humiliates the dignity... of citizens of Jewish nationality." The court also found that the article "contained elements of extremism."

Source: www.fsumonitor.com

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