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Dutch Muslim Group Fined over Holocaust Cartoon
(Reuters) A Dutch Muslim group was fined 2,500 euros ($3,200) for publishing a cartoon which suggested the Holocaust was made up or exaggerated by Jews, a Dutch appeals court ruled on Thursday. The court overruled an acquittal handed down by a Dutch lower court, saying the cartoon, published on the website of the Arab European League (AEL) in 2006, was "unnecessarily hurtful." "The court points out that the European Court of Human Rights, which considers freedom of speech of paramount importance and defends it thoroughly, makes no exception for the denial or trivialization of the Holocaust," the court said.