Examples of using Faurisson in English and their translations into Spanish
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Submitted by: Robert Faurisson.
Faurisson has attended and spoken at IHR conferences;
Chomsky's piece was a general defense of freedom of speech,including that of Faurisson.
Robert Faurisson is at least not as crude as Felderer.
Following the publication of this interview, 11 associations of French resistance fighters andof deportees to German concentration camps filed a private criminal action against Mr. Faurisson and Patrice Boizeau, the editor of the magazine Le Choc du Mois.
The Faurisson case before the Human Rights Committee.
The accusers claimed that his defense wentbeyond free speech arguments, and that it included a defense of Faurisson's work, and in general they sought to discredit Chomsky by claiming that there was a deeper philosophical and political association between him and Faurisson.
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.
We strongly protest these efforts to deprive Professor Faurisson of his freedom of speech and expression, and we condemn the shameful campaign to silence him.
That Mr. Faurisson designated a former Chief Rabbi(Grand rabbin) as the author of the law of 13 July 1990, whereas the law is of parliamentary origin, is another illustration of the author's methods to fuel anti-semitic propaganda.
Although France is known for its laws in favour of freedom of expression, it will be for the Tribunal to assess its scope andnobility in the light of an unfortunate precedent, the Faurisson case, and the humorist's condemnation of"incitement to discrimination, hatred or racial or religious violence.
Chomsky was accused of supporting Faurisson, rather than defending his right to speech, the first of which accusations Chomsky denied.
In the fall of 1979, American scholar Noam Chomsky contributed his name to a petition-signed by roughly 600 people, including Serge Thion, Arthur Butz, John Tuson Bennett and Mark Weber-concerning the affair:Dr. Robert Faurisson has served as a respected professor of twentieth-century French literature and document criticism for over four years at the University of Lyon-2 in France.
Since Faurisson will accept no evidence for the existence of gas chambers, except the testimony of actual victims, he will conclude from both possibilities(gas chambers existed and gas chambers did not exist) that gas chambers did not exist.
Proceedings based on article 24 bis of the Act of 29 July 1881: In an interview published in the September 1990 issue of the magazine Le Choc du Mois,Mr. Robert Faurisson described"the myth of the gas chambers" in an article entitled"The revisionist historians", which was aimed at the Jewish community.
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.
Critics such as Pierre Vidal-Naquet attacked him not for defending the principle of freedom of speech, butfor allegedly defending Faurisson personally against charges of anti-Semitism and upholding his work as historical inquiry: The simple truth, Noam Chomsky, is that you were unable to abide by the ethical maxim you had imposed.
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.
The State party notes that identical considerations transpire from the judgement of the Court of Appeal of Paris of 9 December 1992, which confirmed the conviction of Mr. Faurisson, by reference, inter alia, to article 10 of the European Convention and to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
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.
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.
Faurisson filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Committee in 1993; in 1996, the Committee rejected Faurisson's claim that France's prosecution of him was a violation of the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
In particular, Pierre Vidal-Naquet criticized the wording of the petition as"scandalous",saying that it implied Faurisson was a serious researcher and not a forgery: What is scandalous about the petition is that it never raises the question of whether what Faurisson is saying is true or false, that it even presents his conclusions or"findings" as the result of a historical investigation, one, that is, in quest of the truth.
Mr. Faurisson reiterates that assistance of legal counsel in proceedings before the Court of Cassation is, if not necessarily required by law, indispensable in practice: if the Court may only determine whether the law was applied correctly to the facts of a case, the accused must have specialized legal knowledge himself so as to follow the hearing.
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.
Mr. Faurisson acknowledges that it would still be open to him to appeal to the Court of Cassation; he claims, however, that he does not have the FF 20,000 of lawyers' fees which such an appeal would require, and that in any event, given the climate in which the trial at first instance and the appeal took place, a further appeal to the Court of Cassation would be futile.
Applying these arguments to the case of Mr. Faurisson, the State party notes that the tenor of the interview with the author which was published in Le Choc(in September 1990) was correctly qualified by the Court of Appeal of Paris as falling under the scope of application of article 24 bis of the Law of 29 July 1881, as modified by the Law of 13 July 1990.
Faurisson's writing on the subject first came into the spotlight during a court case between Otto Frank and Heinz Roth, a publishing-house owner responsible for the circulation of various neo-Nazi writings, including several publications impugning the authenticity of Anne Frank's diary; Faurisson's writing on the subject was entered into the court record as an expert opinion in defense of Roth.