Russian court sentences illegal sect members to jail terms

Source: BBC Monitoring Newsfile
Publication date: 2002-07-24

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Text of report by Russian news agency Interfax

Moscow, 24 July: The Moscow Regional court has sentenced two female activists of PORTOS, the Poeticized Association for the Development of a Theory of Public Happiness, Irina Derguzova, and Tatyana Lomakina, to eight and six years imprisonment.

On Wednesday [24 July] the court found them guilty of organizing an illegal armed formation, of setting up a social group whose activity is linked with violence and of the illegal imprisonment of five minors and their systematic torture.

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