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Italian Senate Moves to Ban Denial of Genocides

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February 12, 2015
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ROME—Italian senators on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill criminalizing the denial of the Holocaust and other genocides, following changes to the proposed law to protect freedom of speech, Italian new agency The Local reports.

A total of 234 senators voted for the bill, while eight abstained and three voted against the new law, Il Sole 24 Ore reported.

Under the law, people will face a three-year sentence for promoting, inciting or committing acts of racial discrimination based in part or entirely on the denial of genocide. Crimes against humanity and war crimes are also covered in the bill, which now needs to pass through Italy’s lower house before it can become law.

The Senate vote follows revisions which lawmakers say ensure freedom of speech and the freedom to study are upheld.

Senator Giuseppe Lumia, part of the justice committee, said the vote marked a “turning point” in Italy.

“Denying the Holocaust and genocides will be punished as in so many other countries,” he was quoted in Il Sole as saying.

France and Germany are among the European states which have criminalized Holocaust denial. A British bishop was in 2013 convicted of the crime, after giving an interview to Swedish television in which he questioned the number of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps.

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  1. Hratch says:
    7 years ago

    “Holocaust and other genocides”

    Just goes to show they don’t have the balls to call it the Armenian Genocide. Just another lame attempt to protect the Holocaust and throw a bone to the other victims just to say we care about you too.

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  2. GB says:
    7 years ago

    I hope all WW1 allies who fought against Ottoman’s Turk will pass Genocide denial bill, before April 24, in order to neutralize Turkey’s Rajab Erdoghan Gallipoli political bullshit!

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    • GeorgeMardig says:
      7 years ago

      These people have NO shame, and NO balls,

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