O.C.

skinheads plead guilty in home invasion

June 22, 2011,By VIK JOLLY
SANTA ANA Two Orange County skinhead gang members pleaded guilty Wednesday to
Ielonies charged in connection with a 2009 San Clemente home-invasion robbery in which two
other deIendants already have been convicted.
Brian Merle Sawin, 25, and Mitchell Highley, 24, Iace a minimum oI 15 years to liIe in prison at
their July 8 sentencing by Orange County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Menninger. Both
accepted oIIers by prosecutors to plead and had Iaced at least 30 years to liIe iI convicted at a
trial beIore a jury.
They were each charged with Iirst-degree robbery in concert, Iirst-degree residential burglary,
aggravated assault and other allegations and enhancements, including committing the crime Ior
the beneIit and promotion oI a criminal street gang.
In the Feb. 16, 2009 incident, Sawin who is either Irom Anaheim or Garden Grove, and Highley,
oI Rancho Santa Margarita, and a third skinhead went to the San Clemente home oI the victim
who was asleep with her boyIriend and assaulted her, prosecutors said.

azi skinheads get life
Tags: skinheads, neo-Nazis , judiciary, News, Society, Russia
Jul 11, 2011 21:36 Moscow Time

!hoto: RIA Novosti

A Moscow court has sentenced 5 neo-Nazi skinheads to liIe imprisonment Ior 27 hate murders
and an attempted terrorist attack.
The sixth member oI the Neo-Nazi skinhead group got a suspended Iive years in light oI the Iact
that he cooperated with investigators.
Symptomatically, the gang would meet on social networks.
Russian skin-heads found guilty of
murder
Tags: skinheads, News, Society, Russia
The Moscow District Military Court has delivered a verdict oI guilty to 13 members oI the
Russian National-Socialist Society party, accused oI 27 killings and attacks oI non-Russians Ior
ethnic hatred reasons.
The !rosecutor demands that seven oI the 13 should be given liIe in prison, while the rest be
sentenced to 10 to 25 years behind bars.
One deIendant, a serviceman, is accused oI desertion.
This is the reason why the trial is held behind closed doors. In February this year, Russia`s
Supreme Court outlawed the National-Socialist Society party as an extremist organization.
Racist killers get life
Svetlana Kalmykova, Smirnova Viktoria Jun 15, 2011 21:41 Moscow Time

Alexei Voyevodin. !hoto: RIA Novosti


St !etersburg`s High Court ended a Iive-year legal battle Wednesday by handing down sentences
on a group oI racially-motivated hate killers, all young men and teens aged between 16 and 22.
Two members oI the gang, including the notorious skinhead ringleader Alexei Voyevodin, got
liIe. Twelve others got 10 to 18 years behind bars. The punishment is Ior killing a Tajik girl and
the St !etersburg anti-Nazi campaigner Nikolai Girenko and also Ior numerous savage beatings
inIlicted on guest labourers and Ioreign students.
Back in March, the Supreme Court upheld a liIe sentence to a Nizhny Novgorod student named
Vasili Krivetz Ior as many as 15 hate killings. One oI his co-deIendants was Iound guilty oI Iive
such killings and received 22 years oI strict imprisonment. Four other members oI their gang
received shorter, but still very harsh jail sentences.
In May, the Supreme Court upheld ten-year sentences to two Moscow neo-Nazi killers, named
Artur Ryno and !avel Skachevsky. Each got just ten years because oI being a minor.
Russian prosecutors complain about deIiciencies in the legal system, which oIten get in the way
oI meting out punishment to perpetrators oI hate crimes. Mr Alexei ZhaIerov speaks Ior the
OIIice oI !rosecutor General:
"In the West, the system is simpler. Unless proven otherwise, any attack on a minority member is
presumed to be a hate crime. In Russia, there is no such presumption, which sometimes allows
racially-motivated attackers to pass Ior common hoodlums. Fortunately, the situation is going to
be put right."
In recent media interviews, the Russian lawyer Henry Reznik also emphasized the importance oI
prevention in everything that concerns hate crimes.