21 November 2006, 22:09
Relatives of "Kavkaz-Tsentr" separatists' web-site author to appeal against the verdict
Relatives of Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz-Tsentr" (Caucasus-Centre) web-site of Chechnya separatists who was convicted to five years in custody, announced that they would appeal against the judgment, the "Echo Moskvy" Radio reports.
On November 20, the Butyrskiy Court of Moscow pled Boris Stomakhin, editor-in-chief of the bulletin "Radikalnaya Politika" (Radical Politics) and journalist of "Kavkaz-Tsentr" web-site, guilty and convicted him to five years of imprisonment at a general custody for excitation of religious hatred committed publicly through the use of a mass medium, the "Interfax" reports.
The indictment runs: "When covering in his publications the events in Russia related to combat actions in the Chechen Republic, and the acts of terrorism committed in the territory of the Russian Federation, Mr. Stomakhin justified the terrorists' crimes, the actions directed towards extermination of Russian people as a nation."
