Austrian writer sentenced to prison for Holocaust denial.

Austrian court on April 27 sentenced writer Gerd Honzika (Gerd Honsik) to five years in prison for denying the Holocaust and the Nazi propaganda of ideas, reports Reuters.
When a verdict, Judge Stephen apostle named 67-year-old Honzika "one of the ideological leaders of the European neo-Nazis. Sam Gerd Honzik calls itself Social Democrat, denies all allegations and intends to appeal the verdict. According to him, he never fully denied the existence of gas chambers in the German concentration camps, but "not the typical book claims demonize National Socialism."
The reason for the charges have been several books written Honzikom, and supplies them to the magazine edited Halt.
In 1992, Gerd Honzik was sentenced to 1.5 years imprisonment on similar charges for the book "justified whether Hitler?" But Honzik managed to leave Austria and settled in Spain, where Holocaust denial and the propaganda of neo-Nazism are not criminally punishable. Spain refused to extradite two Honzika Austria has not yet been extradited to his homeland in 2007 after two rulings declaring the writer in the international search.
In Austria, a member of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945 years, Holocaust denial - mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War - and the propaganda of ideas of Nazism are punishable crimes.
In 2005, in Austria on charges of Holocaust denial, was arrested pravoradikalny British historian David Irving. His sentence - three years in prison - later commuted to one year in prison and two years probation. In January 2008, to six years in prison on similar charges court sentenced a member of the city council of Vienna Wolfgang Frolikha.