• David Irving: holocaust denial and free speech

    Carl Gardner
    December 20, 2006

    Given my attitude to David Irving, his conviction and sentence in Austria and his questionable release, as shown in my earlier posts, I thought I’d better explain my position since many people who are far from supportive of holocaust denial […]

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  • Irving coming back

    Carl Gardner
    December 20, 2006

    ORF is now reporting (in German) that Gerhard Jarosch of the Vienna State Prosecutor’s Office doesn’t think the evidence for the March 2006 offences justifies Irving’s pre-trial detention – so there’ll be no application for his arrest. I guess […]

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  • Irving freed – by Austria’s most controversial judge

    Carl Gardner
    December 20, 2006

    The Austrian newspaper Der Standard reports that the Vienna Court of Appeal has today commuted David Irving’s sentence – after a year of his three-year sentence for holocaust denial in 1989, he is now being released on […]

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