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California court charges 2 men with hate crime for assaulting Sikh man
Two men have been charged with hate crime by a court in California after the pair reportedly punched, harassed and cut off the hair of a Sikh man.
According to reports, the two men were charged on Friday with assault as a hate crime, in a case which adds to a number of similar beatings of Sikhs in the United States over a period of more than 10 years.
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Hate crime-tracking groups say assailants have occasionally mistaken Sikhs for Muslims, who themselves have also been victimized in religiously motivated hate crimes.
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