A bill fixing stiffer penalties in the West German criminal code for persons convicted of anti-Semitism or similar racist activities was passed unanimously here this weekend by the Bundestag, lower house of Parliament.
The so-called “anti-defamation” measure provides a minimum sentence of three months’ imprisonment, or fines, for persons convicted of “instigating hatred against parts of the population, inciting to violence, slandering or defaming or maliciously making parts of the population contemptuous.”
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