By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Russian court on Friday sentenced five teenagers to prison terms for beating a Jewish man, dragging him to a cemetery and fatally stabbing him with metal cemetery cross, a court official said.
The Yekaterinburg Regional Court convicted the five of murder motivated by ethnic hatred, sentencing four of them to terms ranging from 5-7 years and one other to 10 years in a prison colony, court secretary Yekaterina Maslennikova said.
Prosecutors said the five, ranging in age from 12 to 17, were drunk on Oct. 1, 2005, when they encountered a 21-year-old Jewish man and attacked him. After the man fell to the ground, the group took a metal cross from a grave headstone and stabbed him.