MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti) - The Moscow City Court upheld Wednesday the convictions of 39 members of a banned extremist-minded political party for attacking a presidential staff office in December 2004.
Defense lawyers who had filed the appeal for the members of the National Bolshevik Party said the court had "failed to study the role of each of the accused," adding that all those involved had acted in a similar manner to each other but while some had been given suspended sentences, others had been sent to prison.
Eight NBP activists were sentenced to between one and half and three and half years in prison in December 2005 after they were found guilty of ransacking the office in the capital.
Thirty-one other activists, who had already spent almost a year in custody, received suspended sentences and were released after the verdict was handed down.
