- Loi Gayssot
The Gayssot Act ( _fr. Loi Gayssot), voted for on
July 13 ,1990 , makes it an offense inFrance to question the existence of the category ofcrimes against humanity as defined in the London Charter of 1945, on the basis of which Nazi leaders were convicted by theInternational Military Tribunal atNuremberg in 1945-46 (art.9). Proposed by the communist deputyJean-Claude Gayssot , it is one of several European laws prohibitingHolocaust denial . Its first article states that "anydiscrimination founded on the membership or non-membership to anethnic group , anation , a race or areligion is prohibited." The "Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme " (Human Rights Consultative National Commission), created in 1947, is charged of making a yearly, public report on the situation ofracism in France.After
Robert Faurisson was removed from his university chair under the act,Fact|date=June 2007 he challenged it as a violation of his rights tofreedom of expression under theInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). TheHuman Rights Committee upheld the Gayssot Act as necessary to counter possibleanti-Semitism [ [http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/385c2add1632f4a8c12565a9004dc311/4c47b59ea48f7343802566f200352fea?OpenDocument Communication No 550/1993 : France. 16/12/96. CCPR/C/58/D/550/1993, Human Rights Committe, Fifty-eighth session, 21 October - 8 November 1996] ] .See also
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Historical revisionism (negationism)
*Robert Faurisson
*Laws against Holocaust denial References
External links
* [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=JUSX9010223L Text of the law, Légifrance] fr icon
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