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Seven men have been arrested in the US state of Ohio on hate-crime charges following a number of beard-cutting attacks in the Amish community. | Seven men have been arrested in the US state of Ohio on hate-crime charges following a number of beard-cutting attacks in the Amish community. |
The breakaway Amish group members are suspected of cutting the beards and hair of Amish men and women. | |
The group leader, Sam Mullet, and three of his sons are among those detained, prosecutors in Cleveland said. | |
More than half a dozen such attacks have taken place in the Amish community in recent months. | |
Authorities are expected to hold a news conference to explain the charges against the men. | |
Religious differences between the two groups are said to be behind the incidents. | |
The attacks are viewed as particularly offensive in the religiously conservative community, where women do not cut their hair and men grow beards once they marry. | |
Wednesday's arrests took place in eastern Ohio. The US attorney's office in Cleveland said the suspects would be arraigned later in the day. | |
In an interview with the Associated Press in October, Mr Mullet denied ordering the attacks, but said he did not prevent his sons and others from carrying them out. | |
He added that the aim of the assaults was to make the Amish community feel ashamed for the way they had treated him and the rest of his group. | |
The Amish, a tiny Christian community also known as the Plain People, generally shun modern conveniences such as electricity, televisions and cars. |