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Russian court jails market bombers
Eight people jailed for 2006 Moscow bomb attack that killed 14 people.
Last Modified: 15 May 2008 21:22 GMT
Human rights groups have said that attacks on migrants in Russia are increasing [EPA]

A Moscow court has jailed eight Russian men for a bomb attack in August 2006 that killed 14 people in a busy suburban market popular with immigrants.
 
The bomb tore through the Cherkizovsky market on the city's eastern fringe in the middle of a working day, as many immigrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus had begun to crowd the stalls.
Prosecutors said the guilty men were members of a racist group called The Saviour which targeted migrants.
 
The court sentenced four of them to life imprisonment. An official from the prosecutor-general's office said: "The sentence was imposed fairly and in proportion to the offence."
Two other men received sentences of 20 years and 13 years and another two were jailed for two years each.

Energy wealth has enriched Russia over the past decade and attracted thousands of migrants from the former Soviet Union who mostly work in city markets, on building sites, sweeping roads and painting fences. 

Resentment against immigrants has grown in some of the more marginalised segments of Russian society and human rights groups have said that attacks on migrants in Russia are increasing.
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