WORLD BRIEFING / GERMANY
A German court convicted the head and two senior members of the country’s leading far-right party of inciting racial hatred and defamation with a pamphlet circulated during the 2006 World Cup.
National Democratic Party leader Udo Voigt, spokesman Klaus Beier and legal affairs head Frank Schwerdt received suspended sentences for printing a pamphlet insinuating that black defender Patrick Owomoyela was not worthy to play for Germany’s team.
Each was further ordered to make a $2,649 donation to the U.N. Children’s Fund.
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