Volume 9, Number 20
May 22, 2009

BIGOTRY MONITOR

A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Religious
Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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SLAP ON THE WRIST FOR RACIST POLICEMAN WHO ATTACKED ARMENIAN FAMILY. A
suspended sentence handed down by a court in the Russian Republic of Adygeya
has gone into force against a police officer who attacked an Armenian
family, according to a May 19 report by the Sova Center for Information and
Analysis. Adam Tlekhuray was convicted of "hooliganism motivated by ethnic
hatred" in connection with a July 6, 2008 attack. According to the verdict,
on that day in the village of Enem, officer Tlekhuray was driving around
drunk when he noticed an Armenian family and started yelling at them. He got
out of his private car, threatened the family while mentioning that he was a
police officer, and began to punch and kick a 12-year-old boy while
threatening to have the family deported. He then assaulted a passerby who
tried to calm him down. Despite the abuse of his authority, Tlekhuray got
off with only a two year suspended sentence and the loss of his job on the
force.

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