Penalizing Holocaust Denial: A View from Europe

Extrémy slobody prejavu a úloha právnej regulácie

“…ESĽP vo všeobecnosti (hoci s rôznymi argumentačnými technikami) odmieta sťažnosti proti porušeniu práva na slobodu prejavu zo strany autorov prejavov popierania holokaustu. 35 V rozsudku Veľkej komory v prípade Perinçek v. Švajčiarko však rozhodol, že právo na slobodu prejavu bolo porušené rozhodnutím švajčiarskych súdov, ktoré sankcionovali verejné popieranie masových deportácií a masakru Arménov v období Prvej svetovej vojny. 36 Jednotný prístup ESĽP chýba aj v prípadoch súvisiacich s verejnou manifestáciou symbolov totalitných režimov.…”

Victimhood of the Nation as a Legally Protected Value in Transitional States – Poland as a Case Study

“…Should the provision be retained in the Polish legal 40 For an excellent analysis of the Court's attitude towards such cases see James order, possibly resulting in further convictions for the "defamation of the Polish nation", the practice would be definitely questioned at the forum of the most important monitoring bodies of the human rights protection. Any critical follower of the case-law of the ECHR would have difficulty in finding there a permission to restrict a historical debate in such a drastic way as was done by the provision of the Polish criminal code in question, except perhaps cases related to the Holocaust denial, 43 which, however, is an entirely different category.…”