- Austria's state prosecutor has filed
an appeal to increase the jail sentence that the British historian David
Irving must serve for denying the Holocaust during a lecture tour of Austria
in 1989.
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- Irving yesterday received a three-year
prison sentence for the claims. He immediately filed an appeal to reduce
his sentence, arguing that he had changed his mind after further research
and now agreed that Nazi Germany had killed millions of Jews.
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- But the state prosecutor claimed Irving
was only pretending to moderate his views to try to escape a jail term.
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- A spokesman for the prosecutor's office
said it had lodged an appeal to have the sentence increased.
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- Michael Klackl, the state prosecutor,
said Irving was a serial "falsifier of history" and had been
cast as a martyr for free speech by neo-Nazis who would not grant such
rights if they were in power.
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- A new hearing is not likely before the
second half of 2006.
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- Denying the Holocaust in Austria is punishable
by a prison term of up to10 years.
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- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/2
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