Judge who targeted Russia's racist neo-Nazis is found shot dead

Bluebear

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Tue Apr-13-10 08:37 PM
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Judge who targeted Russia's racist neo-Nazis is found shot dead

Source: Independent/UK

A leading Russian judge who received death threats after handing out long prison sentences to nationalist and neo-Nazi groups was shot dead yesterday in Moscow.

Eduard Chuvashov was shot three times in the stairwell outside his second-floor apartment, just before 9am as he was leaving for work. Sources in Russian law-enforcement said that nationalist groups could have been behind the attack. Mr Chuvashov, 47, had handled several high-profile cases involving racist killings, and death threats were posted along with his photograph on extremist online forums.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/judge-who-targeted-russias-neonazis-is-found-shot-dead-1943021.html

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applegrove

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Tue Apr-13-10 09:05 PM
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1. I hope they put enough resources into the hunt for these creeps

that they get caught.

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tomm2thumbs

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Tue Apr-13-10 09:21 PM
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2. he lived his ideals, and that is the only way to live - but sorry to hear he had no security

seems a dumb game to me for judges to be threatened and not have at least one body guard between home and the courts - what's a couple hours of protection?

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Tue Apr-13-10 09:57 PM
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3. Global right-wing terrorism

Call it what it is

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