VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian court has convicted a leading neo-Nazi and two accomplices of glorifying Nazism through a website and sentenced them to prison terms of up to nine years.
Gottfried Kuessel was given a nine-year prison sentence Friday for being the founder of the "Alpen-Donau" website. He already spent time in prison in the 1990s on conviction of trying to form a successor to the Nazi party.
The two others — Felix Binder and Wilhelm Anderle — were sentenced to seven and 4 ½ years respectively.
The website is no longer active, but defied years of Austrian efforts to shut it down because it was housed on a U.S. server.
Austrian officials said that left their hands tried because of U.S. free speech laws. Austria bans glorification of the Nazi era.
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