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June 27, 2003
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A French scholar received a six-month prison sentence for defying a court ban on publishing Holocaust denial material. A French appeals court upheld a decision against Jean Plantin on Wednesday. The sentence marked what is believed to be the first prison term handed out to a Holocaust denier in France.

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