A court in Yekaterinburg, Russia (Sverdlovsk region) sentenced six youths to prison for killing a man they thought was an ethnic minority, according to a June 30, 2008 report posted on the web site Gazeta.ru. For some reason, the court threw out charges of extremism against members of the neo-Nazi gang "Zig 88" (international neo-Nazi code for "Heil Hitler"), despite video clips the group posted on the Internet screaming neo-Nazi slogans and calling for recruits to aid them in "cleansing" their district of non-Russians. In addition, the prosecution argued that the extremists periodically gathered in their apartment block's courtyard to recruit new members and organize racist attacks. They were detained after their January 13, 2007 murder of an ethnic Russian man whom they thought was from the Caucasus. The victim died after multiple stab wounds and blows to his head and spine. All six defendants were found guilty of murder and sentenced to between six and ten years in prison.

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