MOSCOW, May 5 (RAPSI) – Three members of the extremist group BORN, who were found guilty of homicide and attempted murder, filed an appeal against their sentences, RAPSI learnt in the Moscow Regional Court on Tuesday.

On April 21, two members of BORN, Vyacheslav Isayev and Maxim Baklagin, were sentenced to life in prison. The third member of the group, Mikhail Volkov received 24 years in jail.

The fourth member of the group, Yury Tikhomirov, was acquitted.

Young men were charged with racketeering, illegal weapons trafficking and several counts of homicide, including the deaths of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, federal judge Eduard Chuvashov, and several leaders of Russian anti-fascist movements. The jury found Isayev, Baklagin and Volkov guilty of killings and attempted murders in March.

Markelov was killed in Moscow in January 2009. He was murdered for his activity in an anti-fascist movement, according to investigators.

Judge Chuvashov was shot and killed in Moscow in 2010. During his career with the Moscow City Court, he presided over 20 high-profile criminal cases, some of which included ethnically motivated murder.

Nikita Tikhonov, who is deemed one of the leaders of the extremist group, was convicted and sentenced in May 2011 to life in prison for the murder of Markelov and Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova.

Tikhonov got 18 extra years in prison last September for killing Chuvashov.

His accomplice Yevgenia Khasis was given 18 years in jail.

Ilya Goryachev, another member of the group, is suspected of involvement in the murder of Judge Chuvashov. He was extradited from Serbia in November 2013. His case is being heard separately.