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Appeal Filed To Lengthen
Irving's Prison Sentence!

The Telegraph - UK
2-22-6 
 
 
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.
 
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.
 
But the state prosecutor claimed Irving was only pretending to moderate his views to try to escape a jail term.
 
A spokesman for the prosecutor's office said it had lodged an appeal to have the sentence increased.
 
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.
 
A new hearing is not likely before the second half of 2006.
 
Denying the Holocaust in Austria is punishable by a prison term of up to10 years.
 
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/2
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