In November of 2013, fearing prosecution for violent crimes perpetrated and recorded on video against young gay men, neo-Nazi Maxim Sergeyevich Martsinkevich hastily fled Russia to avoid imminent arrest. On January 9th, Martsinkevich posted on his website that he was living in Cuba, claiming he had been in the country since last December. This past Friday, the Cuban government arrested Martsinkevich on an international warrent and Cuba is finalizing the extradition process to deport him back to Russia where he has been charged in absentia with incitement of ethnic and social hatred, a penalty that carries a sentence of 3-5 years.
The man behind “Occupy Pedophilia,” a Russian anti-gay extremist who several times falsely portrayed gay men as pedophiles and brutally assaulted them, has been found in Cuba and faces extradition. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore, and Ben Mankiewicz discuss.
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