Tatiana Soskin

Tatiana Soskin

Tatiana Soskin ( _he. טטיאנה סוסקין) was a Jewish immigrant from Russia living among the small Jewish community in Hebron, in the West Bank, and in 1997 at the age of 28 was arrested and subsequently convicted in an Israeli court of several counts, including racism, supporting a terrorist organization and attempting to offend religious sensitivities. She was apprehended in Hebron while attempting to attach to an Arab storefront a drawing she had made depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a pig writing the Koran.

She was sentenced to two years in jail and a one-year suspended sentence.

References

* [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=333640&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y Article] in Ha'aretz describing Soskin's conviction
* [http://masada2000.org/tatiana.html A Pig and a Princess]


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