World IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Judges in Rightist Case to Be Replaced

Two judges under fire over a ruling that appeared to show understanding for a far-right leader’s anti-Semitic views will be replaced because of “long-term illness,” court officials said. Judges Wolfgang Mueller and Rainer Orlet, who handed down a suspended sentence to Guenter Deckert, head of the right-wing National Democratic Party, will be replaced immediately. A three-judge panel chaired by Mueller provoked outrage last week by saying Deckert was a man of character for whom denying the Holocaust was a “matter of the heart.”