A Hungarian man is facing a possible jail term over Holocaust denial comments on Facebook, a sentence handed down under a 2010 law banning public denial of genocides.
The man, identified in a court ruling as Norbert Juhos, 38, made the comments on Facebook last August in response to an article published on the social media site by a Jewish group called TEV (Action and Protection Foundation).
During a three-sentence expletive-rich tirade he used anti-Semitic insults and a term which questioned the veracity of the Holocaust.
According to the court ruling seen by AFP on Wednesday, the defendant was ordered to pay a fine of around 800,000 forints ($2,700 US) or spend 400 days in jail.
TEV's Tibor Pasztor told AFP Wednesday that the punishment was the toughest yet under the 2010 law that renders denial of "genocides committed by national socialist or communist systems" punishable with prison terms of up to three years.