WITZSCH v GERMANY

Application Number 7485/03 European Commission of Human Rights The applicant sent a letter to a professor following an article the latter published regarding the culpability of the Nazi Party and the intention of Hitler to murder the Jews. The applicant wrote a letter to him saying that these statements were false and was subsequently convicted […]

REMER v GERMANY

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 […]

PASTÖRS v GERMANY

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 […]

M’BALA M’BALA v. FRANCE

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: […]

MARAIS v. FRANCE

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 […]

GARAUDY V FRANCE

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 […]