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September 2010. Monthly results
In September 2010, as a result of a racist and neo-Nazi motivated violence killed one and injured at least 14 people (in September 2009, 9 people were killed, 36 people were injured). Total since the beginning of 2010 years, 23 people died from similar attacks in Russia and at least 242 were injured.
In September, incidents occurred in the Moscow region (1 dead, 7 injured), Rostov-on-Don (at least 5 victims), and Yakutia (2 victims). All in all Since the beginning of the year, racist attacks have been recorded in 39 Russian regions.
In terms of violence, counting from the beginning of the year, Moscow continues to lead with Moscow region (11 dead, 94 injured), St. Petersburg from Leningrad region (1 killed, 35 wounded) and Nizhny Novgorod (2 dead, 14 wounded). IN In other cities, the number of victims does not exceed 10 people.
Recall that these statistics do not include victims of mass brawls, as well as victims incidents that occurred in the regions of the North Caucasus.
Following a surge in judicial activity to prosecute racist violence in August 2010 , when 13 verdicts were handed down, in September only one trial ended with a verdict - the case of two Kaluga policemen, beaten on racist grounds by natives of Central Asia. Another trial is about beating citizen of India in Arkhangelsk ended with the reconciliation of the parties.
A total of 63 indictments have been issued for racist violence since the beginning of 2010. sentence that took into account the motive of hatred. In these trials, it was condemned 217 people (including 76 people were either released from punishment for various circumstances, or sentenced conditionally without additional sanctions).
Two guilty verdicts were handed down against propagandists of racism and xenophobia: in the Chelyabinsk region for the creation of an extremist community and propaganda of hatred (Articles 282-1 and 282) A. Lozovsky was conditionally convicted, and in Krasnodar In the region, a RNE activist was sentenced to a large fine.
In total, since the beginning of the year, 39 convictions have been issued under Art. 282, five sentences - under Art. 280 and five - in the aggregate of Articles 280 and 282. In total, these trials convicted 59 people, including 27 - conditionally without additional sanctions.
In September 2010, two judgments were issued recognizing extremist organizations. On September 15, 2010, the Supreme Court of Russia recognized extremist Islamist organization At-Takfir wa al-Hijra, and September 22 Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court - "National Socialist Workers party of Russia.
Federal lists of extremist materials and extremist organizations in September 2010 were not updated .
In the field of illegal application of anti-extremist legislation the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses and representatives of a number of Muslim groups.
Significant were two court decisions in September.
First, on September 3, 2010, the Khabarovsk Regional Court canceled the scandalous decision of the court of Komsomolsk-on-Amur to terminate Internet access to several major internet portals (including Youtube) based on what is posted there individual materials included in the relevant federal list.
Secondly, on September 7, 2010, the Supreme Court of Dagestan rejected demands of the republican department of Roskomnadzor to close the newspaper Chernovik. Recall that they tried to close the newspaper for publishing a series of articles on the problems of terrorism.
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