Russia jails three for murder in homophobia case

Source: BBC News

A court in Russia's far east has jailed three men for the murder of a man they believed to be gay.

The victim was lured to a remote forest in Kamchatka where he was stabbed and kicked to death, the region's chief prosecutor said.

Correspondents say it is unusual for Russian prosecutors to acknowledge homophobia as a motive for an attack.

The attackers - now aged 26, 22 and 18 - put the victim's body inside a car and set it ablaze to conceal the crime.

A statement on the Kamchatka chief prosecutor's website said investigators had established that the three committed the murder "out of personal hatred, based on their conviction that their fellow villager's sexual orientation was non-traditional".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26020058

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And for those who missed it :

Cuban Extradition Leads to Arrest For Anti-Gay Russian Vigilante.

Police have arrested the fugitive neo-Nazi leader of an anti-gay vigilante group after he was extradited from Cuba for breaking the country's immigration laws, a Russian police official said.

Cuban law-enforcement officers had put Maxim Martsinkevich, the leader of the radical right-wing movement "Occupy Pedophilia," on a flight departing from Havana to Moscow on Monday, after ruling that he had stayed in their country for more than 30 days without a visa, a Russian law-enforcement official said, Interfax reported.

Russian police seized him after the flight landed in Moscow, the unidentified official said. An Interior Ministry spokesman confirmed the arrest.

Martsinkevich's lawyer Alexei Mikhalchik said that he had "expected" the deportation to take place "any day now," following Cuba's announcement that Martsinkevich had been in the country illegally, and that an arrest in Moscow was a likely outcome.

Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/cuban-extradition-leads-to-arrest-for-anti-gay-russian-vigilante/493455.html#ixzz2sHuTMzqA


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