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 Santiago Alvarez ∙ November 28, 2015
Ursula Haverbeck Hamburg District Court, Nov. 11, 2015 — 87-year-old Ursula Haverbeck has been sentenced to imprisonment in Germany for doubting that people were “exterminated” by “gassing” in the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. (See our article: "Ursula Haverbeck Challenges German Authorities") The defendant, in good spirits, reiterated her doubts in the courtroom. She arrived…
By Nicholas Kollerstrom ∙ November 25, 2015
This article originally appeared as Appendix IV “Your Rights” in Kollerstrom’s book Breaking the Spell. – Ed [The text has been updated to the book’s 7th edition of 2024; Ed.] “Laws against expressing doubts about the Holocaust, in my view, are simply absurd. If you believe in the Holocaust, as I do, then it should…
By Joseph P. Bellinger ∙ November 25, 2015
The late Joseph Bellinger had intended the current article to be a chapter in a book that remained unpublished at the time of his death, The Prohibition of “Holocaust Denial.” — Ed. The last decade of the Twentieth Century brought increasing challenges to revisionist scholars, researchers and sympathizers as existing European laws related to “Holocaust…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ June 1, 1999
Dr. Fredrick Töben, director of Australia's revisionist Adelaide Institute, was arrested and imprisoned in Mannheim, Germany on April 9, 1999 on the charge of “defaming the memory of the dead.” As readers of Smith’s Report are well aware, this latest outrage against freedom of speech is just one in a long line of human rights…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1999
Ernst Zündel won another, big round against his persecutors in Canada on April 14. The misnamed Canadian Human Rights Tribunal agreed to adjourn indefinitely its hearings aimed at closing down the Zündel Website in the U.S. (actually controlled and operated by Dr. Ingrid Rimland) by holding Zündel responsible for its revisionist (“and thus anti-Semitic”) content….
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ November 17, 2015
We received the following text from Gerhard Ittner four weeks ago. It explains a little more thoroughly his legal case in Germany (on which we reported elsewhere) as well as his attitude toward his harassment by the “German” judiciary. Unfortunately, and as expected, the German judges trying his case did not heed Ittner’s appeal for freedom…
By Michael A. Hoffman, Gordon Deegan ∙ November 14, 2015
Irish Independent, October 29, 2015 Man put axe through TV in town square in 'performance art piece' to further his claims Holocaust did not take place By Gordon Deegan A judge has jailed a "Holocaust denier" for five months for using performance art in the public square in Ennis to further his claims that the…
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ November 13, 2015
Because a man in Germany felt upset during a Facebook exchange over the denial of deliberate murder of Palestinans by Israelis, he posted a satirical comment that, “after all these lies, I slowly get to doubt the truth of the Holocaust.” “It's all fake! All propaganda! Where is the evidence! Seen that way, the Jews…
By Michael A. Hoffman ∙ November 12, 2015
Hamburg District Court, Nov. 11, 2015 — 87-year-old Ursula Haverbeck has been sentenced to imprisonment in Germany for doubting that people were “exterminated” by “gassing” in the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. The defendant, in good spirits, reiterated her doubts in the courtroom. She arrived without a lawyer, and defended herself. Some fifty of her…
By David Merlin ∙ November 11, 2015
You would think that a Court of "Human Rights" would defend the right of a comedian to make jokes with a biting social commentary, Right? Cartoons about Mohammed are ok, yes. Mocking Jesus Christ is humorous, of course. All France united to protest the Islamic attacks on the iconoclast magazine Charlie Hebdo. Correct? Well… think again. Europe…
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