Protests Greet Sentence for Bush Hate Mail
Fri Nov 21,11:31 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to
My Yahoo!
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenian human rights activists
on Friday condemned a court's decision to sentence a
man for "terrorist" crimes for sending hate e-mail to
President Bush (news - web sites).
Tomi Sluga, 29, told the local court in the
northeastern town of Murska Sobota he was drunk and
only joking when he sent an e-mail to the White House
web before a June 2001 Bush visit to the small Alpine
state.
"President, save the Earth, you ass, you will be
killed in Ljubljana. Welcome!" the email read.
The court found Sluga guilty of "endangering a
protected person" and gave him a two-year suspended
sentence on Monday, the first conviction under
Slovenia's new anti-terrorism laws.
Protesters from several rights group demonstrated
outside the supreme court in Ljuljana, demanding
Sluga's case be reconsidered.
"It is an exaggeration that has nothing to do with
security," Gorazd Kovacic of the local Mirovni
Institut (Peace Institute) told Reuters.
"We wanted to protest against the court's senseless
decision to sentence a person for terrorism just for
sending an e-mail," said Marta Gregorcic, a prominent
rights activist who was among the three dozen
demonstrators.
Slovenia broke away from Yugoslavia in 1991 and is due
to join the European Union (news - web sites) in May.
=====
associate editor, _sidereality
http://www.sidereality.com/
——–
http://www.lewislacook.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now
http://companion.yahoo.com/
Protests Greet Sentence for Bush Hate Mail
-
Type: discussion