RUSSIA’S SUPREME COURT ACQUITS MURDERER OF ARTHUR SARDARYAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
11.04.2008 15:30 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The verdict of not guilty of February 2008,
handed the murderer of Armenia-native Arthur Sardaryan, 19, was
upheld. Russia’s Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal of the
defense and state prosecution on the criminal case considered by the
jury in the Moscow district court.

On May 25, 2006 two young people killed Arthur Sardaryan in a
Moscow-Sofrino train. The murder was committed through hatred for
people of Caucasian nationality, the prosecutor’s office said, The
New Times reports