Strasbourg, 28/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - With a ruling passed down last week, the European Court of Human Rights rejected the appeals of three senior officials of the former GDR, including the President of the Council of State, Egon Krenz, and a former border guard, who disputed their sentences to imprisonment by the courts of the Federal Republic of Germany for having, through their participation in decisions taken by the High Instances of the GDR, been "the intellectual authors of...