DAILY MAIL: German politicians are pushing the European Union to consider criminalising the denial of genocides such as the Holocaust across all member states.
The new rules could mean up to a three year prison sentence for anyone denying the Holocaust or the Rwanda massacre in the nineties.
German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, wants to get a deal by June.
EU nations have been at pains to find agreement on common rules as a way of combatting racism and xenophobia amid heightened ethnic and cultural tensions across Europe. Germans want Holocaust denial to be a crime across Europe
Mark Alexander
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Dear god, the authoritarians are advancing in a hurry these days. The suppression of dissent moves inexorably forward by the hour. Who would have thought that the free nations of the world would succumb to thought control? So much for all the brave, loud mouthed opinion formers of our celebrity society.
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