Switzerland’s highest court upheld a three-month prison sentence for an 81-year-old Holocaust denier. The Swiss Federal Court ruled that Gaston-Armand Amadruz has to go to jail despite his old age. The case was brought to trial after Amadruz published statements denying the Holocaust in his newspaper, Courier du Continent.
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