The World - News from Dec. 11, 1987
Canada announced that Imre Finta, a former Hungarian police captain, has been charged in the deportation of more than 8,600 Jews from Hungary during World War II. Finta is the first Canadian to be charged with war crimes. Canada recently changed its laws to allow the government to prosecute residents for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in other countries. Finta, 76, was detained as he boarded a bus in Hamilton, Ontario, bound for Buffalo, N.Y. He was returned to Toronto, where he lives, and charged with confinement, kidnaping and manslaughter. If convicted, he would be imprisoned. Canada has no death penalty.
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