The Rumanian Supreme Court has rejected appeals against sentences meted out to persons convicted of responsibility for, or participation in, the Jassy pogrom of June, 1941, in which upwards of 14,000 Jews lost their ##ives, it was announced here today.
The court ruled that the appeals were “without foundation” and that the military court which originally tried the defendants last June had “rightfully applied the law.” The sentences varied from relatively light prison terms to life imprisonment, the highest penalty in Rumania, which was handed down against ten of the defendants.
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