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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 09:35 22/12/2006 Holocaust denier David Irving returns to England from Austrian jail By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies British historian David Irving returned to England the day after he was released early from an Austrian prison - vowing to repeat views denying the Holocaust that led to his conviction. Irving said Thursday he felt "no need any longer to show remorse" for his views on the Holocaust, for which he was sentenced to three years in prison.Vienna's highest court granted Irving's appeal and converted two-thirds of his sentence into probation on Wednesday. Upon arriving at London's Heathrow airport, he also called for a boycott of all Austrian and German historians until laws which make Holocaust denial illegal in those countries are overturned. Advertisement Willfried Kovarnik, head of Vienna's immigration police, said Irving had been indefinitely banned from Austria and that he had spent Wednesday night in an Austrian detention center. Irving said he intended to appeal that decision. In February, Irving was convicted under a 1992 law which applies to anyone in Austria who denies, plays down, approves or tries to excuse the Nazi genocide or other Nazi crimes against humanity. The law calls for a prison term of up to 10 years. The Austrian judge who ruled in favor of Irving's early release from jail is considered to be a supporter of Jorg Heider's rightist Austrian Freedom Party, the Austrian news agency APA reported on Wednesday. When Haider's party was a coalition member, judge Ernest Mauer was appointed as member of the Austrian Broadcasting authority Osterriechischer Rudfunk. Following his conviction for denying the Nazis' organized the mass murder of 6 million Jews, Irving had appealed for a reduced sentence while the prosecutor wanted a longer one. Irving has been in jail since his arrest in November 2005 on a visit to Austria, which was part of Germany's Third Reich from 1938 to 1945. The Vienna court ruled his sentence should be changed from a jail term to probation and that Irving was free to leave. "He is free, and he can leave, and he will leave," said his lawyer Herbert Schaller. Austria had issued an arrest warrant for Irving in 1989 for denying the Holocaust in lectures and in a press interview he gave the same year. Iriving has contended that most of those who died at concentration camps like Auschwitz succumbed to diseases such as typhus rather than execution. Bookmark to del.icio.us Virtual diplomacy Peres Center to distribute computer game simulating the peace process. Size does matter A giant Israeli flag at Masada breaks world record for largest in world.   1.   David Irving 03:34  |  tom 22/12/06   2.   Both the laws against freedom of speech and Irving are ridiculous 04:35  |  Yankelowitz 22/12/06   3.   Not just denial 05:28  |  Angillilio 22/12/06   4.   Re: David Irving 05:41  |  Bob 22/12/06   5.   I LOVE EUROPE MORE THAN MYSELF 05:49  |  indrajaya 22/12/06   6.   Re: Bob 06:43  |  Fletcher 22/12/06   7.   It will not be a long time before he`s back where he belongs-jail 07:04  |  Marwan مروان خوري 22/12/06   8.   A letter from David Irving...says: "Mel Gibson was right!" 07:24  |  michael santomauro 22/12/06   9.   David Irving 08:45  |  Steve Antinucci 22/12/06   10.   RE: I LOVE EUROPE 09:11  |  TW 22/12/06   11.   David Irving. 09:19  |  sandra chitayat 22/12/06   12.   why? 09:44  |  hussam 22/12/06   13.   hussam - the conspiracy reversed 10:16  |  michael jacobs 22/12/06   14.   Yankelowitz - Denial must be punished 10:41  |  michael jacobs 22/12/06   15.   Milking the jewish holocaust... 11:12  |  Gerry 22/12/06   16.   Freedom of speech is the backbone of democracy 11:22  |  Clickfool 22/12/06   17.   To # 14 michael jacobs : What about laws for other genocides ? 12:42  |  Yankelowitz 22/12/06   18.   Indra-drier: I love your World 13:33  |  Albert Seligman 22/12/06   19.   indrajaya "5 13:36  |  Sarah 22/12/06   20.   Yankelowitz - Holocaust denial is a disguise 13:55  |  michael jacobs 22/12/06   21.   Anybody who denies the Holocaust 15:35  |  Chris Linthwaite 22/12/06   22.   No longer a martyr 16:00  |  Mark Lincoln 22/12/06   23.   Agree with Clicker #16 16:02  |  Albert Amato 22/12/06   24.   DOWN WITH CENSORSHIP... 16:08  |  Karni 22/12/06   25.   libel and incitement 16:19  |  Joe 22/12/06   26.   HAARETZ: Don`t call David Irving a "British historian". He is ... 16:35  |  Vittorio 22/12/06   27.   Aww damn! 16:46  |  Steven A. 22/12/06   28.   Banned From the Birthplace of his Favorite Person 17:19  |  Bimmer 22/12/06   29.   Its about Free Speech 17:34  |  B 22/12/06   30.   denyinh holocaust 22:19  |  stooge 22/12/06   31.   David Irving 02:05  |  Andy 23/12/06   32.   Shouting "Fire" In A Crowded Theatre 11:22  |  Rowan Berkeley 23/12/06   33.   Andy is right 11:49  |  hussam 23/12/06   34.   micheal-common!! 11:58  |  hussam 23/12/06   35.   Why are they hated? 23:06  |  Ness 23/12/06   36.   Why are they hated? 23:14  |  Ness 23/12/06   37.   hussam - living peacefully 12:04  |  michael jacobs 24/12/06   38.   Irony 03:28  |  Gus Hirsch 26/12/06   39.   thank u micheal 20:17  |  hussam, 29/12/06   40.   Holocaust deniers 21:49  |  Rachel 03/01/07   41.   Re Click #16 19:10  |  Esther 26/11/07   42.   Re Rachel #40 19:23  |  Esther 26/11/07

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