Russia & CIS General Newswire
January 25, 2008 Friday 5:11 PM MSK

Jury repeatedly acquits man charged with hate crime in Moscow region

MOSCOW Jan 25

A jury at the Moscow Region Court acquitted for the second time a
defendant charged with the murder of Artur Sardarian, 19, an ethnic
Armenian, in the Moscow region.

Nine out of the 12 jurors found a 17-year-old Muscovite not guilty,
while three found him guilty.