Examples of using Faurisson in English and their translations into Russian
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Submitted by: Robert Faurisson.
Faurisson v. France, Communication No. 550/1993.
Communication No. 550/1993; Robert Faurisson v. France.
Mr. Faurisson concludes that he is, in his own country,"buried alive.
The individual opinions of Committee members appended to the Views on the Faurisson v. France case were also quite enlightening.
Mr. Faurisson argues that it would be wrong to examine his case and his situation purely in the light of legal concepts.
As it did in General Comment No. 10 andCommunication No. 550/1993, Faurisson v. France, Views adopted on 8 November 1996.
In December 2006, Faurisson gave a speech at the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, which was sponsored by the government of Iran.
However, the issue should be discussed in depth and he wondered whether the Faurisson v. France case was the only relevant precedent.
Mr. O'Flaherty(Rapporteur for the general comment)said that a reference to"memory laws" could be retained in a footnote citing the Faurisson case.
In respect of the judicial proceedings,Mr. Faurisson questions, in particular, the impartiality of the Court of Appeal Eleventh Chamber.
Mr. Faurisson also refers to the criticism of the Gayssot Act by Mrs. Simone Veil, herself an Auschwitz survivor, and by one of the leading legal representatives of a Jewish association.
His conviction therefore did not encroach upon his right to hold and express an opinion in general,rather the court convicted Mr. Faurisson for having violated the rights and reputation of others.
Moreover, the Committee had addressed it, notably in the Faurisson v. France case, which was one of the Committee's most widely discussed pieces of jurisprudence.
Mr. Faurisson contends that the law of 13 July 1990 was hastily drafted and put together by three individuals and that the draft law did not pass muster in the National Assembly when introduced in early May 1990.
Having concluded its consideration of Communication No. 550/1993 submitted to the Human Rights Committee by Mr. Robert Faurisson under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Mr. Faurisson notes that he sued the newspaper Libération for having refused to grant him a right of reply; he was convicted in first instance and on appeal and ordered to pay a fine to the newspaper's director.
The author and Mr. Boizeau appealed their conviction to the Court of Appeal of Paris(Eleventh Chamber). On 9 December 1992, the Eleventh Chamber, under the Presidency of Mrs. Françoise Simon, upheld the conviction andfined Messrs. Faurisson and Boizeau a total of FF 374,045.50.
Shortly after the enactment of the"Gayssot Act", Mr. Faurisson was interviewed by the French monthly magazine Le Choc du Mois, which published the interview in its Number 32 issue of September 1990.
It publishes and circulates texts and writings from mainly French and German Holocaust deniers in different languages on the Internet,including Robert Faurisson, Germar Rudolf, the right-wing politician and former NPD member Günter Deckert, and Argentine Norberto Ceresole.
It was exactly because Mr. Faurisson expressed his anti-semitism through the publication of his revisionist theses in journals and magazines and thereby tarnished the memory of the victims of Nazism that he was convicted in application of the Law of 13 July 1990.
By judgement of 18 April 1991,the 17th Chambre Correctionnelle du Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris convicted Messrs. Faurisson and Boizeau of having committed the crime of"contestation de crimes contre l'humanité" and imposed on them fines and costs amounting to FF 326,832.
I think Faurisson once stated:“the future belongs to revisionism, alas not to the revisionists”, implying that the war on the publication level would be won, but that the state and its judeo-liberal class would do anything to prevent dissident shaping.
I would like to add that a determining factor for my position is the fact that, although the wording of the Gayssot Act might, in application, constitute a clear violation of article 19 of the Covenant,the French court which tried Mr. Faurisson interpreted and applied that act in the light of the provisions of the Covenant, thereby adapting the act to France's international obligations with regard to freedom of expression.
Mr. Faurisson asserts that the State party has failed to provide the slightest element of proof that his own writings and theses constitute a"subtle form of contemporary anti-semitism"(see para. 7.2 above) or incite the public to anti-semitic behaviour see para. 7.5 above.
A university professor until 1991, when he was removed from his chair, Mr. Faurisson stated in September 1990, in a French monthly magazine Le choc du mois("Shock of the Month"), that there had been no gas chambers for the extermination of the Jews in Nazi concentration camps.
Mr. Faurisson contends that he has ample reason to believe that the records of the Nuremberg trial can indeed be challenged and that the evidence used against Nazi leaders is open to question, as is, according to him, the evidence about the number of victims exterminated at Auschwitz.
Lastly, Knobel quotes the notorious revisionist, Robert Faurisson, who, in a note published on the Internet and entitled“Informations révisionnistes pour Internet”(“Revisionist information for the Internet”), writes that“thanks primarily to the Internet, there is a new trend towards historical revisionism.
On 2 January 1995, Mr. Faurisson submitted an individual communication to the Human Rights Committee at the United Nations in which he contended that the Act of 13 July 1990, known as the“Gayssot Act”, which created the offence of disputing crimes against humanity, was contrary to the principle of freedom of expression and instruction.
In its views, adopted on 8 November 1996,the Human Rights Committee notes that Mr. Faurisson was sentenced for violating the rights and reputation of others; the Committee therefore took the view that the Gayssot Act, as applied to Mr. Faurisson, was compatible with the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and that there had been no violation of Mr. Faurisson's right to freedom of expression.