Russian Man Gets Prison For Internet Anti-Semitism

JTA:

December 11, 2008

MOSCOW (JTA) -- A Russian man was sentenced to prison for posting anti-Semitic slogans on an Internet forum.

A court in Penza sentenced a 42-year-old shut-in to one-and-a-half years in prison for posting anti-Semitic tirades to a local Internet forum, according to the Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Mikhail Zinkin, an unemployed and disabled resident of the town some 400 miles southeast of Moscow, posted fascist symbols and tirades against Jewish political leaders and oligarchs.

He pleaded not guilty to charges of incitement of hatred or hostility, but was nevertheless convicted this week to the prison sentence.

"I was looking for contact with people and organizations that called themselves 'Russian patriots.' My speech against Jewish people was only against the thieves, criminals and oligarchs," Zinkin said, reported by Komosomolskaya Pravda.

Authorities confiscated his computer, and Zinkin made a pledge to be more politically correct in his statements. [link]

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Comments

[Jewish Martin Luther King]

“Each fighter on the card is in a position to make a statement very early in 2009,’’ said Luis Barragan, director of programming for HBO Sports.

P.S. Why you don't let Dmitriy Salita to make a statement?

[Eric]

Well, those anti-Semites should be given a chance to meet with Dima face-to-face in some sort of a ring. Let's see how long they will last.
Eric.

[Anti-semites who keep Salita off big screen]

what about anti-semites who post on internet about Salita, and the main anti-semite who doesn't let Dmitriy to fight on TV