Reuters reporting on the Zundel Verdict

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Thu Mar 15 08:09:20 EST 2007


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ZGram -

A bit belatedly, Zundelsite readers might want to know how a NEWS 
syndicate (Reuters) treated the news of the Zundel verdict, at least 
on its website.

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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION DENIED:  German court sentences Holocaust 
dissenter to five years in prison

German court jails Holocaust denier Zundel for five years
 
Reuters  Thursday, 15 February 2007

MANNHEIM - A German court sentenced a prominent Holocaust denier 
extradited from Canada to five years in prison on Thursday for 
inciting racial hatred and denying the Nazis murdered six million 
Jews.
                                                                     
Ernst Zundel, publisher of works such as Did Six Million Really 
Die?,* was handed the maximum sentence under German law for Holocaust 
denial.

Zundel, 67, has been in custody in Germany since March 2005 after 
being deported from Canada. The court would not release him on bail 
because of the danger he would flee.

In his closing statement Zundel said the court should set up an
international commission of experts to examine the Holocaust. If the 
commission confirmed the gassing of Jews, he told the court he would 
convene a press conference to apologize to Jews and other victims.

The trial was suspended in late 2005 after the judge dismissed a 
publicly appointed defense lawyer when she produced written 
submissions that appeared to deny the Holocaust. It resumed just over 
a year ago.

Zundel is a German citizen who has spent much of his life in Canada. 
He ran a Web site (sic) and distributed a publication called Germania 
Rundbrief denying the Holocaust took place.

There were posters of Zundel and other prominent Holocaust deniers at 
last year's Holocaust conference in Tehran organized by Iranian 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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