Netherlands / 19-08-2010
Holland - Dutch Arab group fined over Holocaust-denying cartoon
A Dutch appeals court fined an Arab organization in the Netherlands 2,500 Euros for causing "unnecessary offence" in publishing a Holocaust-denying cartoon.
"The Holocaust is a black page in the history of humanity," the appeals court in Arnhem in the eastern Netherlands said in a statement.
In April, a court acquitted the AEL of insulting Jews by publishing the cartoon, which depicts the Nazi Holocaust as a figment of Jewish imagination.
But appeals judges agreed with prosecutors that the cartoon was more offensive than could be justified by the debate.
They fined the organization 2,500 Euros (3,200 dollars), of which 1,500 Euros was suspended.
Source: http://www.ejpress.org/
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