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"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell On April 18, 1991 Professor Robert Faurisson was convicted of violating France's peculiar law against questioning "the existence of one or more crimes against humanity as defined by Article 6 of [the charter of] the International Military Tribunal, annexed to …

Three new examples of how "Justice lies down in the conqueror’s bed" In the course of a discussion programme on the ARTE television channel last November, Robert Badinter lied outright in saying that in 1981 he had won a court ruling against me "for being a falsifier of history". I …

Twenty-one Italian scholars and historians have issued a public statement defending freedom of speech and of historical research on the Holocaust issue, and criticizing the laws in France and Germany that restrict these rights for revisionist scholars who question the orthodox Holocaust extermination story. It specifically cites a French government …

Ambassador Pierre Vimont Embassy of France in the United States 4101 Reservoir Road, NW Washington, D. C. 20007 February 8, 2008 Dear Ambassador Vimont, As you are undoubtedly aware by now, Holocaust revisionist scholar Dr. Robert Faurisson will probably stand trial for comments he made at the Iran Holocaust Conference …

Ambassador Pierre Vimont Embassy of France in the United States 4101 Reservoir Road, NW Washington, D. C. 20007 January 15, 2008 Dear Ambassador Vimont, It has been reported that revisionist historian Robert Faurisson will face trial on charges that he made statements at the Iran Holocaust Conference in December 2006, …

Dear Friends, Holocaust revisionist historian Robert Faurisson will apparently stand trial in his native France for statements that he made at the Iran Holocaust conference of December 2006, which cast doubt on the so-called Jewish Holocaust. As you may know, the Gayssot Act of 1990 prohibits and punishes any public …

In 1789 the French National Assembly enacted the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen,” a guiding document of the French Revolution that solemnly proclaims as “inalienable” the rights of free speech and of the press. Today French citizens are, by and large, able to express their views …

Theodore J. O'Keefe is book editor for the Institute for Historical Review, and an associate editor of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review. He previously worked at the IHR from 1986 until 1994, serving as chief editor of this Journal from 1988 until April 1992. He also addressed the IHR …

What is usually called the "Faurisson Affair" began on 16 November 1978 with the publication of an article about me in the newspaper Le Matin de Paris. For several years I had realized that as soon as the press made public my opinions about Revisionism I would encounter a storm …

Jean-Marie Le Pen Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of France’s National Front party stunned the world on April 21, 2002, when he came in second in the French presidential race, to challenge the incumbent Jacques Chirac. In the May 5 runoff election, Le Pen garnered 18 percent of the vote. Press …

This past July 25, in Paris, a judge notified me of three criminal proceedings brought against me, essentially for having taken part in the international conference in Tehran on “the Holocaust.” I shall remind the reader that at that conference, held on December 11th and 12th, 2006, all participants without …

Since 1990, Bernard Notin, assistant professor of economics at the University of Lyon III, has been unable to practice his profession – in spite of French law – because of a decision by the Jewish institutions and organizations of Lyon represented by Dr. Marc Aron,[1] as well as the …

Statement on oath by John Tuson Bennett of 122 Canning Street, Carlton Melbourne Australia, barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. I, John Tuson Bennett of 122 Canning Street Carlton Melbourne make oath and say as follows: I am a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of …

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[Dr. Faurisson wrote this article some eight months ago. While some of the legal circumstances have changed (as the preceding article makes clear), his description of the continuing persecution of revisionists in France, Switzerland, and elsewhere in Europe has lost none of its freshness, acuity, or defiance. – Editor] Robert …

February 12, 2014 Eric Delcroix, my former lawyer, has just reminded me that the late humorist Pierre Desproges (1939-1988), in a skit for the television show “Le Tribunal des flagrants délires” (The Court of in flagrante delirio), once portrayed me as an unnameable character, unnameable at least for the French …

Les frontières ravagées, fondées dans un immense royaume de Frénésie, les hommes voulant du progrès et le progrès voulant des hommes, voilà ce que furent ces noces énormes. L'humanité s'ennuyait, elle brûla quelques Dieux, changea de costume et paya l'Histoire de quelques gloires nouvelles.—Céline, Semmelweis, p. 1. Chronique des évènements …

No "Right to Reply" (yet written in our law) was granted to me by the media when they discharged the worst lies against my book The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. I was walled up in silence. Only Abbé Pierre dared raise his great voice. By enacting laws that …

For writing and distributing a book that disputes claims of mass killings in German gas chambers during World War II, two French revisionist scholars have been ordered by a Paris court to pay fines of $3,000 each. The offending 90-page book, written by Prof. Robert Faurisson, is entitled Reponse a …

Souvent, il semble que l'esprit s'oublie, se perde, mais à l'intérieur, il est toujours en opposition avec lui-même. Il est progrès intérieur et comme Hamlet dit de l'esprit de son père : « Bien travaillé, vieille taupe ! »—Hegel Nous reconnaissons notre vieil ami, notre vieille taupe qui sait si …

Dr. Bernard Lewis, a leading specialist of Middle Eastern studies, is no stranger to academic controversy. But the pugnacious Jewish scholar never imagined that one day he'd find himself obliged to defend his view of history in a Paris court, much less that he'd be publicly compared to French "Holocaust …

Concluding a dramatic trial that included stunning testimony by a leading Holocaust researcher, a Paris court in June ordered two French revisionists to pay fines of $3,000 each for writing and distributing a book that disputes claims of Second World War mass killings in German gas chambers. (A brief report …

The Teheran Holocaust Conference caused quite a storm in the world media. One might ask: what's so special about that? There are so many holocaust events and holocaust museums and holocaust festivals, sometimes attracting presidents and prime ministers galore, so why did the Teheran (or Tehran) conference draw so much …

To Ditlieb Felderer For a period of four years my publisher, Pierre Guillaume, his friends, and I faced considerable difficulties because of our common opinion about the myth of the gas chambers and the genocide of the Jews. Among those difficulties was first and foremost judicial repression. That repression has …

Introduction In June of this year I first became aware of the persecution of French revisionist author and scholar Georges M. Theil through an Internet email notification. Theil was facing hefty financial penalties and even prison time for having written a slender autobiographical work in 2002. I began a personal …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell Paris – Professor Robert Faurisson has been convicted of Holocaust denial by a Paris court over remarks he made on Iranian television. Faurisson, 77, is widely known for his Holocaust revisionist views and writings. Faurisson was given a three month …

On November 1, 2000, French historian and sociologist Serge Thion, 58 and a father of three, was dismissed from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), without salary or severance pay. [Thion is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, including Vérité historique ou vérité politique?, a …

On December 9, 1992, the Paris Court of Appeal (Eleventh Department) rejected Professor Robert Faurisson’s appeal of an April 1991 conviction on a charge of “contesting the crimes against humanity” because of remarks about the Holocaust story he made in a magazine interview. The appeal court imposed penalties of 187,000 …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell Eric Delcroix, a 52 year old defense lawyer, was convicted in Paris on October 22, 1996 for "contesting crimes against humanity." For publishing his book, La police de la pensee contre le revisionisme (The Thought Police Against Revisionism), Delcroix was …

“Where are the gas chambers?,” asks an American soldier at the “Liberation of Buchenwald.” This cartoon by a prominent female artist who uses the pen name “Chard,” is from the French paper Rivarol, July 2, 1993. Not long after it appeared, French authorities summoned the artist to question her about …

On 20 October 2013, Joseph Bellinger passed away. The current article was intended to be a chapter in a book that remained unpublished at the time of his death, The Prohibition of “Holocaust Denial.” We are currently in the process of editing various chapters from this work to prepare them …

The chemical engineer and former math teacher Vincent Reynouard is a well-known French figure in the revisionist world. A very close friend and colleague of Professor Robert Faurisson, he calls the current “post-revisionists” Faurisson’s heirs. Born on February 18, 1969, in Boulogne-Billancour to wealthy parents (both his parents were physicians, …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell A French court fined a magazine editor $5,200 for publishing revisionist articles. Gabriel Andres, editor of Rot un Wiss (Red and White) questioned the existence of "gas chambers" at Struthof-Natzweiler, a concentration camp in Alsace. Supporters of the orthodox Holocaust …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell Professor Robert Faurisson who attended the recent Holocaust Conference in Iran is apparently the first of the participants that could face legal punishment. French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy who recently warned the French Parliament of a resurgence of revisionist theories …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell On January 3, by decision of the high court of Lyon (6th chamber, where press-related cases are heard; presiding judge: Fernand Schir), Mr Georges Theil, a former elected official from the Front National, was found guilty, under the Fabius-Gayssot Act …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell On April 10, the appeals court in Caen (Normandy) upheld convictions against Vincent Reynouard, a 23-year-old chemical engineer, and Remi Pontier, an information engineer, for distributing leaflets and stickers that question the existence of extermination gas chambers in Third Reich …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell On October 5, 2005, by decision of the high court of Limoges, François Cassasus-Builhé presiding, Georges Theil was convicted under Frances Loi Gayssot (anti-revisionist law). Mr Theil's crime was having sent a few individuals copies of the book that he …

Today at 7.45 am four police officers carried out an extensive search of my house. They acted under a warrant issued by the Parisian examining magistrate (juge d'instruction) Jean-Paul Valat. Three of them had come from Paris and the fourth from the local Vichy police station. They found none of …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell A French magistrate launched a probe into French historian, Roger Garaudy on allegations that he illegally questioned established beliefs about the holocaust. Garaudy commented that he had ``done nothing wrong'' in his work, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell Prosecutors have demanded that Jean-Marie Le Pen should be given a five-month suspended prison sentence and a 10,000 euro fine for saying that the Nazi occupation of France was "not particularly inhumane." LePen is a French right-wing nationalist politician and …