USA: Nazis who branded swastika on Navajo man's arm imprisoned for five and eight years

A court in the US state of New Mexico has sentenced two neo-Nazis to several years in prison for assaulting a 22-year-old Navajo man and branding a swastika, the symbol of Nazi Germany, on his arm with a heated clothes hanger. The neo-Nazis also shaved the same symbol onto the man's head and wrote the abbreviation KKK (Ku Klux Klan) and the slogan "White Power" on his body.

The cruelty, committed almost two years ago, lasted several hours and was even filmed by the perpetrators on their mobile telephones. The court has sent the 28-year-old perpetrator to prison for eight years and his 26-year-old accomplice to prison for five.