A court in Bratislava has postponed until Dec. 16 hearings in the trial of a Slovak publisher of anti-Semitic literature.
Martin Alexander Savel, 47, is charged with spreading racial and ethnic hatred by publishing the notorious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and other racist material under the imprint of his Agres publishing company.
The court adjourned hearings last week because of the absence of several witnesses.
Savel, a lawyer, pleaded not guilty and said he was exercising his constitutional right to air his political views. He also claimed a cultural mission for his right-wing extremist weekly Hlas Slovenska (The Voice of Slovakia) in which he has published anti-Semitic articles. Agres also publishes the anti-Jewish weekly Politika in the Czech language for distribution in the Czech republic.
The Prague daily Lidove Noviny, in a front-page article last week, charged police had failed to bring charges against Politika editor Josef Tomas for hatemongering, despite 11 months of investigation.
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