The Warsaw Court of Appeal today reversed the sentence of the lower court which imposed one month’s imprisonment upon a student, Jahn Milashewski, for his activities in connection with the anti-Jewish riots in Poland last November.
The Court of Appeal upheld the contention of counsel for Milashewski, that the sentence of the lower court was under the law which prohibits incitement by one section of the population against the other, but that the Jews are not a section of the population but a separate nation.
Milashewski was previously convicted for circulating leaflets, issued by the anti-Semitic League of the Green Ribbon and signed by him, calling for a boycott of Jewish students and general fierce incitement against the Jewish population.
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