ZGram - 12/12/2004 - "Breaking news: Verbeke won't be
extradited!"
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Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever!
December 12, 2004
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
Siegfried Verbeke, as you may remember, is one of the first - if not
THE first - European Revisionist who was to be extradited from
Belgium to Germany under a new European law that permits "Holocaust
deniers" to be punished via extradition. He was arrested several
days ago.
Here is the very welcome news from Siegfried Verbeke's brother:
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Today the judge has decided that Siegfried will not be expelled to
Germany and this decision seems to be definite.
I'm convinced that this decision will be great value for Ernst Zundel.
More details follow later.
Greetings,
Herbert Verbeke
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Furthermore, one more article that speaks for itself, illustrating
how times have changed!
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Moscow court frees Russian Mein Kampf publisher
Activists outraged after publisher walks free
By LEV KRICHEVSKY
JTA Thursday, December 2, 2004
MOSCOWJewish leaders and human rights activists in Russia
are outraged by a sentence handed down in the case of a publisher
known for printing anti-Semitic articles.
Alexander Brod, the director of the Moscow Bureau for Human
Rights, said activists would seek new opportunities to bring Viktor
Korchagin to justice for activities that include the publication of a
Russian edition of Hitlers Mein Kampf.
On Nov. 24, a Moscow court found Korchagin guilty of
publishing hate materials and gave him a one-year suspended sentence,
which was immediately annulled because of the statute of limitations.
Boris Stambler, who has for several years tried to have
charges brought against Korchagin, called the sentence a mockery of
common sense, facts and law.
Under the pretext of statute of limitations, the court has
de facto acquitted Korchagin, said Stambler, a Jewish veteran of
World War II.
The verdict, which was welcomed by ultranationalist leaders,
was the result of four years of court battles waged by Stambler and
other Jewish activists.
I feel a serious concern that the culprit was not punished,
one of Russias chief rabbis, Berel Lazar, said in a statement. The
freedom of speech should have its limits. One cannot cover up ones
actions by freedom of speech in order to abuse, and call for pogroms
and deportations.
Korchagin, appearing unrepentant, called the ruling a victory.
Two years ago, a Moscow court shut down one of Korchagins
newspapers for publishing hate materials and calling for the
deportation of Jews and other minorities. The decision on Russkie
Vedomosti, or Russian Gazette, marked the first time that a media
outlet was closed down in Russia under a media law that includes a
ban on distribution of anti-Semitic and hate propaganda.
Despite the 2002 court ruling, Korchagin continued to call
for a solution of the Jewish question through the deportation of
Russias Jews in his other publications.
He is the founder of a small publishing house called Vityaz,
or Knight, that made a name for itself in conservative circles by
publishing the Library of a Russian Patriot.
The collection of 25 paperback books includes such titles as
the 19th-century anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion, a Russian translation of Henry Fords International Jew* and
the writings of Jürgen Graf, a leading Holocaust denier.
The entire collection is sold through mail order for the
equivalent of $10.
Korchagin also published at least two editions of Hitlers
Mein Kampf that can be found at some book stands in Moscow and
elsewhere in Russia for about $10 per copy.
Hate speech is a criminally punishable offense in Russia,
although Russian courts have been reluctant to enforce the law.
Since the end of communism, only one individual has served a
prison sentence for publishing hate materials, even though dozens of
anti-Semitic and xenophobic books and magazines are being published
in Russia, according to human rights watchers.
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=14805&intcategoryid=2
http://www.jewish.ru/994193116.asp
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