- VIENNA -- A Vienna court
sentenced Monday a former extreme-right city councillor to four years in
prison for Holocaust® denial, adding another two-and-a-half years of
a previous suspended sentence, a report said.
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- AUSTRIAN 'DEMOCRACY'-Dissident Fröhlich
is shackled.
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- It was the third time that Wolfgang Fröhlich, 56,
had been found guilty on similar charges, following letters to Austrian
members of parliament and Pope Benedict XVI denouncing the Holocaust®
as a "Satanic lie," the APA news agency said.
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- Pleading "absolutely not guilty," according
to APA, Fröhlich had already served 23 months behind bars since 2003
- and gasped in court as the other 29 months were added.
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- Fröhlich - kicked out of the populist far-right
FPÖ party in 1994 - is to appeal, said his lawyer, Harald Schuster.
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- Austria has one of the strictest sets of laws surrounding
Holocaust® denial and neo-Nazi activity.
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- British revisionist historian David Irving spent 13 months
in jail after his arrest in 2005 before being expelled to the UK. http://www.ejpress.org:80/article/23149
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- Austrian Revisionist Given SIX And A Half
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- VIENNA -- A Vienna court
sentenced Monday a former extreme-right city councillor to four years in
prison for Holocaust® denial, adding another two-and-a-half years of
a previous suspended sentence, a report said.
-
- AUSTRIAN 'DEMOCRACY'-Dissident Fröhlich is
shackled.
-
- It was the third time that Wolfgang Fröhlich,
56, had been found guilty on similar charges, following letters to Austrian
members of parliament and Pope Benedict XVI denouncing the Holocaust® as
a "Satanic lie," the APA news agency said.
-
- Pleading "absolutely not guilty," according
to APA, Fröhlich had already served 23 months behind bars
since 2003 - and gasped in court as the other 29 months were added.
-
- Fröhlich - kicked out of the populist far-right
FPÖ party in 1994 - is to
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- appeal, said his lawyer, Harald Schuster.
-
- Austria has one of the strictest sets of laws surrounding
Holocaust® denial and neo-Nazi activity.
-
- British revisionist historian David Irving spent 13 months
in jail after his arrest in 2005 before being expelled to the UK.
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- http://www.ejpress.org:80/article/23149
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