A Canadian man was sentenced to 16 months in jail followed by three years of probation for spreading hatred against Jews via the Internet. The sentence handed down last Friday came in the first Internet hate crime to go before a criminal court in Canada. Reni Sentana-Ries was also ordered to take down his site and was forbidden to use the Internet upon his release.
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