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12-15-2007, 08:02 PM
Greek Historian Convicted for Anti-Jewish Book
The Associated Press
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A far-right Greek historian was sentenced to 14 months in prison Thursday for inciting racial hatred with a book that denies the Holocaust took place, court officials said. Historian Costas Plevris appealed his sentence and was not taken into custody. A three- member panel of judges voted 2-1 to find Plevris guilty of inciting violence and racial hatred. The court cleared three other defendants of similar charges: the publisher, the editor and a journalist at a small right- wing magazine that published extracts from the book. Greek Jewish community leaders had testified that Plevris' book The Jews: The whole truth has led to an increase in attacks on Jewish monuments in the country.
In France, Le Pen on Trial Over World War II Remarks
Reuters
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/934706.ht ml
Prosecutors told a court on Friday French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen should receive a suspended prison sentence and a fine for saying that the Nazi occupation of France was "not particularly inhumane". Le Pen's trial for "justification of war crimes" and "contesting crimes against humanity" opened on Friday. It centers around a comment Le Pen made in a 2005 interview with right-wing weekly magazine Rivarol, which angered the government, anti- racism organisations and Jewish groups. The prosecution asked that Le Pen be handed a five- month suspended sentence and fined 10,000 euros ($14,530).
The Associated Press
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/934426.ht ml
A far-right Greek historian was sentenced to 14 months in prison Thursday for inciting racial hatred with a book that denies the Holocaust took place, court officials said. Historian Costas Plevris appealed his sentence and was not taken into custody. A three- member panel of judges voted 2-1 to find Plevris guilty of inciting violence and racial hatred. The court cleared three other defendants of similar charges: the publisher, the editor and a journalist at a small right- wing magazine that published extracts from the book. Greek Jewish community leaders had testified that Plevris' book The Jews: The whole truth has led to an increase in attacks on Jewish monuments in the country.
In France, Le Pen on Trial Over World War II Remarks
Reuters
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/934706.ht ml
Prosecutors told a court on Friday French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen should receive a suspended prison sentence and a fine for saying that the Nazi occupation of France was "not particularly inhumane". Le Pen's trial for "justification of war crimes" and "contesting crimes against humanity" opened on Friday. It centers around a comment Le Pen made in a 2005 interview with right-wing weekly magazine Rivarol, which angered the government, anti- racism organisations and Jewish groups. The prosecution asked that Le Pen be handed a five- month suspended sentence and fined 10,000 euros ($14,530).