A Czech court sentenced a member of a far-right political party to 10 months in prison for inciting national hatred. The 24-year-old had placed photographs of Czech President Vaclav Havel and other political leaders in the center of the town of Decin with a message that read: “The aim of these Jews is to destroy the state and to liquidate the nation.”
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