Finnish news editors fined for letter

Two newspaper editors were fined for publishing a letter that said violence against Jews was justified and that the Holocaust was acceptable. State Prosecutor Mika Illman said Uusimaa, a small regional newspaper, and the Kansan Uutiset left-wing paper broke the law in July by publishing the letter by Usko Takkumaki, which criticised Jews and Israel. A regional court found the two editors guilty of inciting racial hatred. The editor of Uusimaa was fined USD 1,300 (EUR 998) on Monday, and the editor of Kansan Uutiset, who had not seen the letter before it was published, was fined USD 500 (EUR 384). Takkumaki also was fined USD 740 (EUR 568). (AP, ABC News,January 10, 2007)

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