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Jury acquits Vietnamese student murder case suspects

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ST. PETERSBURG, October 17 (RIA Novosti) - A jury in St. Petersburg acquitted Tuesday all 17 defendants in the case of the murder of a Vietnamese student in Russia's second city in October 2004, but found nine of them guilty of other crimes.

The Vietnamese student was stabbed in October 2004 in St. Petersburg by a group of drunk teenagers on alleged race-hate motives.

Eight defendants were fully acquitted, and the remaining nine were found guilty of attacking other foreign nationals.

Russia has experienced a wave of attacks on non-white foreigners this year, particularly in St. Petersburg, where an Indian student was stabbed to death and a Sudanese national attacked in September.

Other attacks in St. Petersburg in the past year have included the beating of a Chinese student, and the stabbing of a nine-year-old girl of mixed Russian-African origin in early 2006. A man from Mali was stabbed to death in the city in February, a student from Cameroon was murdered last December, and a Congolese student was killed in September 2005.

Routine attacks by skinheads and youth gangs on foreigners and people with non-Slavic features have also been reported in some other Russian cities.

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