Defending free speech
February 25, 2006
An Austrian court has sentenced disgraced historian David Irving to three
years in prison. But prosecutors say that isn’t punishment enough and that the
67-year-old should serve the full 10 years for violating an Austrian law
proscribing anyone who “denies, grossly plays down, approves or tries to excuse
the National Socialist genocide or other National Socialist crimes against
humanity …”