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The Syktyvkar City Court handed blogger Savva Terentyev a one-year suspended prison sentence Monday for a controversial post he made last year, saying police officers should be "periodically set on fire" in city squares, "like in Auschwitz."

Terentyev, 22, was found guilty of inciting hatred or harm for a commentary he wrote on journalist Boris Suranov's blog in February 2007, prosecutor Alexander Shulkin said.

Terentyev's lawyers have questioned the findings of court experts called on to examine the language in the piece and plan to appeal the verdict, Interfax reported.

His lawyers maintain that Terentyev had intended for only a select number of people to see the online commentary and ...

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