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UK: Pair jailed for web race crimes

(UK) Pair jailed for web race crimes
— “Two men have been jailed after becoming the first in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred via a foreign website.”
— “Simon Sheppard, 51, of Selby in North Yorkshire, received four years and 10 months, and Stephen Whittle, 42, of Preston, two years and four months.”
— “The men printed leaflets and controlled US websites featuring racist material.”
— “The investigation into Sheppard began when a complaint about a leaflet, called ‘Tales of the Holohoax’, was reported to police in 2004 after it was pushed through the door of a synagogue in Blackpool.”

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