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| Beslan moms who blamed Putin sentenced |
| 2016-09-03 |
| [RFE/RL] A group of women who blamed Vladimir Putin for the Beslan school massacre have been sentenced to either community service or fined. On September 2, a court in Beslan found the women guilty of violating the law about holding public gatherings and sentenced three of them to 20 hours of community service, while two others were fined $305. Another woman, who did not wear an anti-Putin T-shirt but stood with the demonstrators to express support, was also sentenced to 20 hours of community service. The women's protest was held on September 1, the 12th anniversary of the 2004 hostage tragedy that left 334 people dead, including 186 schoolchildren. As a school bell rang near the ruins of the school, the five mothers whose children either died or were hostages at the school took off their jackets to reveal shirts that read "Putin is the Executioner of Beslan." |
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