Reuters reporting on the Zundel Verdict
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Thu Mar 15 08:09:20 EST 2007
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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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