Court convicts radical Internet journalist

On November 20 a Moscow court convicted Radical Politics editor-in-chief Boris Stomakhin, sentencing him to 5 years behind bars. Despite Stomakhin's disability, he was found guilty of inciting religious strife and publicly encouraging extremism. The journalist became disabled already as a wanted man. To escape arrest, he jumped out of a window of his fourth floor apartment and broke his spine and leg. The arrest was prompted by four issues of the underground bulletin Radical Politics, which lashed out against the authorities' policy in Chechnya. Stomakhin's materials were featured on the infamous website Kavkaz Center.