The prosecution, by proper courts of law, of dissidents for their peaceful activities. Unless a report is on prosecution in general, it has been categorized in the subcategory of the country where the prosecution occurred.
By CODOH ∙ October 5, 2005
“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 published in 2002, under the pseudonym…
By Bradley R. Smith, Christopher Cole ∙ August 8, 2004
Throughout the Western world people are being prosecuted for writing about World War II and the Holocaust. Historians, researchers, authors, and publishers are being fined, imprisoned, placed under gag orders, expelled from their native countries, and denied entry into others. Those who are prosecuted are routinely prevented from mounting an effective defense, because witnesses who…
By Vincent Reynouard ∙ January 7, 2004
On June 9, 2004, the appeal court in Limoges sentenced me to two years in prison (whereof 18 months on probation) and a fine of 3000 Euro for the crime of “approving a war crime.” It also declared the confiscation of parts of my archive, which was seized in 2001, to be lawful. The reason…
By Jürgen Graf ∙ November 25, 2002
I. How “Western Democracies” Fight Revisionism Ladies and gentlemen, right now, in Switzerland, since the 16th of January 2003, an 82-year old man in poor health, is being imprisoned for three months. In April of 2000, he was sentenced to one year imprisonment, but the appellate court lowered his punishment. His crime: In self-published writings…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 2002
Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of France's National Front party, stunned the world on April 21, when he came in second in the French presidential race, to challenge the incumbent Jacques Chirac in the May 5 runoff election. Press coverage of the veteran nationalist political figure has been more than unfriendly; he has been maligned with…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ April 10, 2002
Historical revisionism, the great intellectual adventure of the late twentieth century, continues at the dawn of the twenty-first, as perilous as ever. But what is known of the revisionists? What stuff are they made of, these unsubdued people who, in France or abroad, persist in braving the written and unwritten laws? They are hunted, caught…
By Orest Slepokura ∙ March 1, 2002
Doug Collins was born 81 years ago in the United Kingdom. In 1939, with the outbreak of the Second World War, he volunteered for the British Army and, while serving as an infantry sergeant (at 19, the youngest in his regiment), was captured by the Germans at Dunkirk in 1940. As a POW in both…
By CODOH ∙ April 4, 2001
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Australia's Jewish community has taken court action against Dr. Fredrick Töben, director of the revisionist think tank, the Adelaide Institute . The Executive Council of Australian Jewry is seeking the enforcement of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) order that Holocaust revisionist material be…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ June 2, 2001
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 the objects for which they…
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 1, 1996
Often, a bogus charge of anti-Semitism (or racism) is made because of values or opinions or beliefs expressed in a public forum. Consider the case of one Thomas Speers of Waterbury, CT, whose expression of free speech, ironically, landed him in court at the behest of the the radio talk show host whose program Speers…
End of content
End of content
