Friday, January 21, 2005

Holocaust denial to be legal in Slovakia?

Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post have the same AP story: "Slovakia's Jewish community protested Friday a proposal to remove a law punishing Holocaust denial from the country's penal code."

Removing this section from the penal code is a profoundly bad idea. At first glance it would appear to be a careless consequence of a government coalition that includes both free-speech advocates (the New Citizen Party) and (ambivalent) supporters of the wartime Slovak state (the Christian Democrats, among them the Justice Minister).

Two articles in SME (in Slovak, here and here) add only that a member of parliament from the Slovak Magyar Coalition (part of the government) has proposed an amendment to restore the ban to the penal code. There do not appear to be any other articles in the Slovak press.

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