The European Commission for Human Rights in Strasbourg has rejected a complaint by convicted Nazi war criminal Joseph Kotaella that the Dutch government violated the European Convention on Human Rights when it imposed a life sentence on him which he is presently serving. Kotaella, 68, is one of three Germanbom war criminals still imprisoned in Holland.
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