- Prague (dpa) - A man who attended a Prague rally in support
of a Holocaust-denying writer was sentenced Monday to 15 months in prison,
the CTK news agency reported.
- Antonin Cermak, 21, was convicted of denying the Holocaust
by shouting "only" when a counter-demonstrator at the October
protest shouted, "You killed 1.7 million Jewish children," the
report said.
- Cermak was among 70 people who rallied outside the German
embassy in Prague on a Czech state holiday.
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- The rally, organized by Czech neo-Nazis, was closely
watched and videotaped by police. The rally was called to show support
for book writer Ernst Zuendel, who is currently on trial in Mannheim, Germany,
for allegedly denying the Holocaust in his book, "The Hitler We Loved
and Why". The book is popular among neo-Nazis.
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