Austria – An Indictment Issued against David Irving on Charges of Denying the Holocaust

On 22^nd November 2005, controversial British historian David Irving was indicted for denying the Holocaust, an offense according to Austrian law. He had been arrested on 11^th November 2005 because of a controversial address he delivered in 1989 in Vienna and in the southern Austrian town of Leoben in which he denied the existence of the gas chambers in the extermination camps. Steirmark, the Austrian General Prosecutor said that if Irving is convicted he could face a 10-year prison sentence. (Reported by AP)