A court in Novosibirsk, Russia sentenced the publisher of a local newspaper to prison for inciting anti-Semitism.
According to a report by the local news Web site Taiga.ru, editor and publisher Igor Kolodzenko already had two suspended sentences on his record for inciting ethnic hatred, one for the crime of publishing an article that openly called for violence against Jews. Kolodzenko continued to publish anti-Semitic articles, and this week the court sentenced him to two years in prison.
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