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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Aug 29 2003, 06:01 AM
Just out of curiousity, what countries make questioning the official version of the Holocaust illegal?
Specifically, where can one find himself in legal difficulty quibbling over half-million?
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Here are a few things I found searching for "thought crimes". Granted many or any of these people might have ulterior motives. Don't know. Haven't exactly followed these stories.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...8%2Fnxeno18.xml
"Legislation now before Parliament will make "xenophobia and racism" one of 32 crimes for which the European arrest warrant can be issued without the existing safeguard of dual criminality. This requires that an extraditable offence must also be a crime in the UK.
Alongside the arrest warrant, EU ministers are negotiating a new directive to establish a common set of offences to criminalise xenophobia and racism."
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http://www.ihr.org/other/990424toben.html
"Disputing Holocaust extermination claims is illegal in Germany, Israel, France, and a few other countries"
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http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/04/DTel030402.html
"In Germany a historian who claimed that Auschwitz prisoners enjoyed cinemas, a swimming pool and brothels was sentenced to 10 months in jail"
"Holocaust denial laws are in place in seven countries, including Germany, France and Austria."
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This guy was prosecuted in a 9 year long case under Canadian law before being found not guily.
http://www.zundelsite.org/english/debate/week.html
According to his site: "A ban by the German censors on my server was imposed. 1,500 web sites were inaccessible in Germany because of five small words, still followed by a question mark. Did Six Million Really Die?"
Not verified.
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