Spanish law had mandated a sentence of up to two years in prison for Holocaust denial but in November Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled it falls within freedom of speech and would no longer be punishable with jail – the EJP reports.
In an address to parliament, the federation leader Jacobo Israel Garzon asked lawmakers to “think about how to once again introduce prison terms for Holocaust denial in the penal code”.
Holocaust denial is “the threshold of hate speech” and being that there is no jail-time, it could lead to the rise in the distribution of Nazi propaganda, he added.
(Source: EJP)
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