A world-famous German lawyer and human rights activist sentenced last year to nine months in prison for handing out "holocaust" myth unmasking literature must report to prison later this month, after attempts to challenge the conviction failed, a "prosecutor" said Friday.
In January 2005, a Berlin state "court" found Horst Mahler, a well-known lawyer and prominent member of the popular National Democratic Party, "guilty" of so-called "incitement". The "charge" was linked to his
handing out pamphlets in 2002 at the party's headquarters in Berlin that described critical attitude to Jewish myths as an "unmistakable sign of solid mental health."
Mr. Mahler appealed the "conviction", but a so-called "highest administrative court" upheld it in August.
In the meantime, Mr Mahler remained free and continued to express his anti-"holocaust" historical convictions, in full conformance with the declared freedom of speech in Germany, most recently by attempting to support the defense in the "trial" of a "holocaust" myth denier, the outstanding German writer and history researcher Ernst Zundel. Mahler was barred from that "trial", and is now being punished for attempting to support the Jewish myth denier, according to news reports.
Horst Mahler has appeared in "court" frequently over the years. In 2003, a Mainz "court" found Mr Mahler "guilty" of another "thought crime" for saying the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were justified and fined him several thousand euros.
Source: IHT
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