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04/16/2009: "Australia convicts Holocaust denier for continuing to post anti-Semitic claims"

An Australian previously jailed in Germany and Austria for expounding his view that there were no mass killings of Jews in World War II was convicted Thursday of contempt of court in Melbourne for continuing to publish anti-Semitic material on his Web site.

German-born former high school teacher Frederick Toben, 65, was the subject of a civil action by Jeremy Jones, a former president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, for defying a court order to stop publishing claims that the Holocaust never happened.

Toben, who said he would choose to go to jail rather than pay a fine when he is sentenced later this month, said he had no regrets. "If you believe in something and you want to have that freedom to express your opinions, then you should be prepared for sacrifices," he said outside the court in Sydney.

[ There's a man who won't back down! I hope his sacrifice will do some good and this pointless law will be brought into further disrepute - but he would be no less honorable if he had decided to say things in a less incriminating manner after having already served jail time. ]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078746.html