Pakistani American guilty of cutting Sikh's hair in the US

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Hate crime in New York school

March 19, 2008

An 18-year-old Pakistani American has been convicted of hate crime against a Sikh student in a New York school. Depending on whether he is treated as a youthful offender or an adult, Umair Ahmed can face up to four years in prison for cutting 15-year-old Harpal Vacher's hair with a pair of scissors after threatening him on May 24, 2007.

A New York jury, after two-and-a-half days of deliberations, found Ahmed guilty of second-degree menacing as a hate crime, second-degree coercion as a hate crime, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and third-degree harassment. He is scheduled to be sentenced on April 11. The incident reportedly took place after a spat between Ahmed and the victim.

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