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Spain: Revisionist gets suspended sentence

01 May 1999

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A Barcelona court has raised the issue of whether the crime of "justifying genocide" is unconstitutional before the Constitutional Tribunal, in the case of Pedro Varela. Varela is a well known right-wing leader, owner of the Europa bookshop and director of the CEDADE (Spanish Circle of Friends of Europe). He was sentenced to five years in prison after thousands of racist books, publications and videos, including holocaust denial literature were found in his library. The court argued that insofar as there is no aggression, the crime of justifying genocide does not exist, as it is covered by the provisions set out in "freedom of expression" guidelines. Varela recevied a suspended sentence.

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