World News Article | Reuters.co.uk - Racist Russian teens jailed for child murder

Seven Russian teenagers who killed a five-year-old girl in a racist attack have been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. The young men assaulted a group of Tajik gypsies in Russia's second city of St Petersburg last September, attacking them with metal poles, chains, knives and axes. The girl died in hospital. It was the first and most shocking of a series of racist attacks in St Petersburg. This year the city has also witnessed the killing of a nine-year-old Tajik girl and the murders of three Asian and Arab students. (...) Experts said the ruling would help show prosecutors were serious about tackling racist crime in Russia, where violence against darker-skinned immigrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus is common. siehe auch: Racist teenagers sent to prison. SEVEN Russian teenagers who killed a five-year-old girl in a racist attack were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison today.