Holocaust denial now a crime in Hungary

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Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom has signed a law making Holocaust denial punishable by three years in prison.

The law was approved last month by Hungarian lawmakers after courts rejected more wide-ranging versions of the law because they limited free speech.

The governing Socialist Party and Hungary’s growing Jewish community welcomed the news.

Some 550,000 Hungarian Jews and 50,000 Gypsies were killed in the Holocaust. — ap

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