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 Hadding Scott ∙ March 20, 2016
On 17 March 2016 at the Palais de Justice in Paris was held the trial on appeal of Mr. Paul-Eric Blanrue and Professor Robert Faurisson. Paris's criminal court had invalidated the earlier conviction on procedural grounds. The prosecution has appealed and is prosecuting the two men for the film Un homme: Robert Faurisson répond aux…
By Joseph P. Bellinger ∙ February 18, 2016
The late Joseph Bellinger had intended the current article to be a chapter in a book that remained unpublished at the time of his death, The Prohibition of “Holocaust Denial.” Part One was published in the last issue of Inconvenient History. — Ed. The Case of Abbé Pierre In a non-related incident, 83-year-old Abbé Pierre, a…
By David Merlin ∙ February 12, 2015
Suzanne Nossel Executive Director PEN[email protected]Karin Deutsch Karlekar Director of Free Expression Programs[email protected]Katy Glenn Bass Deputy Director of Free Expression Programs[email protected]Shreya Balhara Free Expression Coordinator[email protected] Dear PEN- I am writing in response to Executive Director Nossel's recent letter regarding the release of reporter Jason Rezaian and poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Medhi Mousavi. Thank you for the…
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ February 2, 2016
Screen shot of the offending Facebook entry with the Haverbeck video. German Politican Susanne Ulber has been excluded from the German patriotic, anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) for having “denied the Holocaust”. Ulber had posted the video interview German revisionist Ursula Haverbeck had given to a leftist German government TV channel in…
By Barbara Kulaszka ∙ January 1, 1992
Currently, only the Publisher’s Note has been posted in html format on CODOHWeb. The complete book is available as a PDF download here or can be read on this screen when you scroll all the way down. An new, second edition 8see illustration on the right) can be purchased in print and eBook formats from…
By Yvonne Schleiter ∙ January 26, 2014
At the big demonstration in Paris last Saturday (January 26, "day of anger") against President Hollande and his government some participants, at least one with a megaphone, were heard chanting a slogan that can be translated "Faurisson is right: the gas chambers are a sham".The demonstration gave rise to clashes between marchers and police: there were 262…
By Sylvia Stolz ∙ April 26, 2013
“A prison sentence will not force me into believing.”~ Guenter Deckert “When I have doubts I demand the right to express them …They talk about tolerance, but mean the inquisition. … The hunt to find incorrect literature pretending to fight crime. For a short time people can be intimidated by the threat of punishment, but…
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 8, 2013
Yesterday's op ed by Daniel Ellsberg (of 1971 Pentagon Papers fame) provided a stunning retrospective on what Ellsberg calls the "different America" that dealt with him 40 years ago vis-a-vis the America that NSA Leaker Edward Snowden faces today for having committed "crimes" very similar to those committed by Ellsberg. The effect of the comparison…
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ December 5, 2015
Some individual(s) have disseminated a flyer to local letter boxes of the Swiss town of of Kreuzlingen. It contests that Jews were systematically gassed during WW II. The real victims, the anonymous author states, are to be found amongst German civilians: "So-called contemporary witnesses of those years are claiming gruesome horror-stories. The vast majority of…
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ November 29, 2015
…cry the headlines of newspapers in Switzerland. The reason: Marcel Sauder, a farmer from Thurgau, is accused of having denied the "holocaust" on ham radio, having said: "The Holocaust never happened; at most a few tens of thousands of Jews died during World War II." Four years ago, the 44-year-old operator who calls himself "Fuchs" (fox)…
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