A court in Moscow sentenced three members of Misanthropic Division to terms ranging from 3 to 3.5 years in prison

The Moscow District Military Court sentenced three members of the Misanthropic Division organization , recognized as extremist in Russia. . courtroom The Moscow agency reports this from the

The defendants - Vitaly Tsaruk, Viktor Pekhterev and Kirill Khalepo - were charged under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity), Khalepo was also charged under Article 205.2 (calls for terrorist activities).

As a result, Tsaruk was sentenced to three years and two months in a general regime colony, Pekhterev was sentenced to three and a half years in a colony, and Khalepo received three years in a penal colony.

As RAPSI wrote , the defendants in the case partially admitted their guilt. “I partially admit my guilt in that I posted (in the movement’s open group on the social network VKontakte) materials “Adolf Hitler about the Jews”, the rest is not. I’ve been in a pre-trial detention center for more than 10 months now, I don’t remember specifically,” Pekhterev said.

According to investigators, Misanthropic Division conducted activities on the Internet with the aim of humiliating representatives of “Caucasian and Asian ethnic groups”, incited hatred against Jews, Muslims and blacks, and also propagated the ideology of Nazism, racism and justification of extremism and terrorism.

According to Life , 23-year-old prosthetic mechanic Halepo reposted a manual on guerrilla warfare tactics to his page, which he maintained under the pseudonym “Adam Jihadov.”

In the summer of 2016, the Investigative Committee opened a case of extremism against the creator of Misanthropic Division, Dmitry Pavlov. Russian authorities have demanded Pavlov's extradition from Germany, where, according to them, he is located.