BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

10/04/2008

For the First Time in Belarus, Vandal of Jewish Cemetery Brought to Justice

Since at least the mid-1990s, dozens of recorded incidents of vandalism against Jewish cemeteries, synagogues, Holocaust memorials and community centers took place in Belarus, none of which resulted in any punishment for the culprits. Now for the first time, a court in that country sentenced a vandal to prison, according to an April 10, 2008 report by the Russian Jewish web site Jewish.ru. Two suspects, aged 18-20, were charged destroying four gravestones in April 2007. One was found guilty and sentenced to two and a half years in prison plus a fine.

Source:

http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/041008Belarus.shtml

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