Toben jailed in Australia
August 13, 2009
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — A German-born Holocaust denier living in Australia was jailed for three months, drawing to a close a 13-year legal battle. Dr. Fredrick Toben, director of the Adelaide Institute in South Australia, an allegedly anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying organization, lost his appeal Thursday in Federal Court to overturn his conviction for contempt of court.
Toben, 64, was found guilty earlier this year on 24 counts of contempt of a 2002 court order to remove anti-Semitic material on his Web site that included claims that gas chambers did not exist at Auschwitz and that the Holocaust was “a lie.”
In their verdict, the three judges said the issue was not the Holocaust [what a bunch of liars !] but whether Toben had complied with court orders.
“Obedience to the court is not optional,” the judges wrote. “In our opinion, the sentence of three months cannot, on any stretch of the imagination, be considered excessive or unwarranted.”
The long-running case began in 1996 when Jeremy Jones, a former president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, accused Toben of breaching the Racial Vilification Act.
Jones told JTA: “Fredrick Toben has, for many years, showed contempt for basic decency and contempt for history. He is now in jail for his contempt of Australian law.” Jones said Toben would not be hailed as a martyr. “There is no evidence that he has gained any support at all due to the court cases he has lost – to the contrary, outside the government of Iran, he has failed dismally at attracting support of any type.” [Wrong again, poor guy !]
On Thursday, Toben’s Web site included a notice that read: “It is the contention of this site that the Holocaust does not exist in reality … We have no malice towards Jews, and we wish them well in their struggle to escape their own enslavement.”
Robert Goot, current ECAJ president, said in a statement he would “not hesitate” to return the matter to the court if Toben breached the law again.
Toben has twice previously served jail time: In 1999 he spent several months in a German jail for inciting racism; [another invention: he was arrested because he confronted the German prosecutor on the Holocaust] in 2008 he spent two months in jail in London as German authorities tried unsuccessfully to extradite him under a European Arrest Warrant for publishing his revisionist material. [The should add that Toben is judicially persecuted but the so-called Jewish community representatives since more than 10 years...]
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