Armenian politician given 3-year prison sentence for spreading anti-Semitic
propaganda
AP Worldstream
Mar 18, 2005
An Armenian court on Friday sentenced a radical nationalist politician
to three years in prison for disseminating anti-Semitic propaganda.
Armen Avetisyan, the leader of the United Armenian Aryans’ party, was
charged with spreading hatred toward Jews through the mass media in
this impoverished former Soviet republic.
Avetisyan denied the charges.
The landlocked Caucasus country, which is strongly Christian, has a
Jewish community that numbers less than 1,000.