Application Number 64496/17 European Court of Human Rights A Bishop gave an interview to a Swedish television programme where he alleged that six million Jews were not gassed and that there were no gas chambers. Der Spiegel published an article in which the applicant’s statements about the existence of the gas chambers during the Nazi […]
Application Number 25096/94 European Commission of Human Rights The applicant wrote several publications in which he argued that the gas chambers during the Nazi regime did not exist and that groups such as asylum seekers constituted a source of problems for Germany. The EComHR found that his application was manifestly ill-founded on the grounds of […]
Application Number 55225/14 European Court of Human Rights The applicant, a politician of the National Democratic Party of Germany, made statements on the day after Holocaust Remembrance Day, denying the Holocaust. He was convicted for denying the systematic, racially motivated, mass extermination of the Jews carried out at Auschwitz during the Third Reich. The ECtHR […]
Application Number 25239/13 European Court of Human Rights [Judgment delivered in French] A comedian put on a show in which he awarded a well-known revisionist academic. The show, described below, was deemed by the Court to be highly anti-Semitic. The Court relied on Article 17 finding the case incompatible ratione materiae with the Convention. Link: […]
Application Number 31159/96 European Commission of Human Rights The applicant had written an article doubting the existence of gas chambers at Struthof-Natzweiler concentration camp. The EComHR found the application to be manifestly ill-founded. Link: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-88275%22]} Theme(s): Genocide Denial (Holocaust) Date: 24 June 1996 Description of applicant(s): Citizen Brief description of facts: The applicant wrote a […]
Application Number 24662/94 European Court of Human Rights The case concerned a publication in Le Monde regarding the defence of the memory of Marshal Pétain. The president of the Association for the Defence of the Memory of Marshal Pétain and the lawyer representing him were charged for publicly defending the crimes of collaboration with the enemy. The […]
Application Number 64496/17 European Court of Human Rights [Judgment delivered in French] The applicant was found guilty of disputing the existence of the Holocaust in his book ‘The Founding Myths of Modern Israel.’ He received suspended sentences of imprisonment, the longest being for six months and fines in excess of 25,900 Euros and compensation of […]
Application Number 36773/97 European Commission of Human Rights The applicant argued that his freedom of expression had been violated after he was sentenced to imprisonment and a fine for statements made in a periodical on which he was head of the editorial staff. The statements minimized and denied the atrocities of the Nazis. The EComHR […]
Application Number 25062/94 European Commission of Human Rights The applicant wrote articles in a periodical which denied the existence of gas chambers and the mass extermination of the victims of the Holocaust. The EComHR found that this was not protected speech, rendering the application manifestly ill-founded. Link: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22dmdocnumber%22:[%22666524%22],%22itemid%22:[%22001-2362%22]} Theme(s): Genocide Denial (Holocaust) Date: 18 October […]
B.H., M.W., H.P. and G.K. v. AUSTRIA Application Number 12774/87 European Commission of Human Rights The applicants belonged to the Neo-Nazi party ‘Aktion Neue Rechte.’ They were convicted under the National Prohibition Act and given conditional prison sentences. The EComHR explained that given the history of Austria and the convention, this was legitimate under Article […]