Finnish editors fined for anti-Semitic letter

A Finnish newspaper editor who published a reader's letter which approved of the holocaust has been fined for inciting racial hatred. Antti Toiviainen, chief editor of Finnish regional daily Uusimaa, was fined €1,050 (£705). The editor of another paper, Kansan Uutiset, was fined €400 (£270). He had refused to run the letter, but it was published due to a technical fault or human error. The letter writer, whose identity was not disclosed, was fined €570 (£380). He wrote that the persecution of Jews by the Nazis was "a desirable measure". (Via European Jewish Press)