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Belgium sentences two for racist Web site

BRUSSELS, June 21 (UPI) -- Two members of a Belgian Islamic center have been sentenced to jail and fined for racist language and videos on the group's Web site.

Abdel Rahman Ayachi, 26, and Raphael Gendron, 30, were given a 10-month sentence, with five months suspended, and fined $22,000, Expatica News reports.

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The center's Web site included a video and statements denying the Holocaust, making light of Nazi actions and racist remarks about Jews and other groups.

Ayachi and Gendron were in charge of the Web site.

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