The trial of teenagers who beat a Malian citizen began in Lipetsk
On May 31, 2005, in the Pravoberezhny District Court of Lipetsk, a trial began on charges of four 16-19-year-old teenagers in beating a student of the Lipetsk Pedagogical University, a citizen of the African Republic of Mali, 22-year-old Mayg Abu Bakar. Criminal case under Art. 282, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“humiliation of human dignity on the basis of nationality and race, committed with the use of violence”) was instituted on March 15, 2005.