An Austrian court has ruled that UK historian David Irving - jailed for denying the Holocaust - should be released on probation.
The court had heard calls for both a reduction and increase in the three-year sentence.
Irving was convicted in February in a case that sparked international debate about the limits of freedom of speech.
In 1989 he spoke in Austria denying the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz, though he later said he was “mistaken”.
Irving on Wednesday welcomed his release and said he was “fit and well”.
He said he would urge an academic boycott of historians from Germany and Austria until the nations stopped jailing historians.
“I was put in prison for three years for expressing an opinion 17 years ago,” he said.
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JUST LOOK WHAT PRISON HAS DONE TO MR IRVING!
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1 pepelle // Dec 22, 2006 at 9:09 am
how can they or you hangs so hard and so fiercely to such a weak argument of denial or neo denial or perhaps i don’t know, as it was the last to have to fight the internationel jew conspiration, this is not satisfying intellectually
it feels phony, dispaired, a bit as the last marbble of the bag, why to fix conspiration theories on this sole assumption, must be some other bad and wicked conspirators somewhere on earth, neo-cons seems to make it ones in a while, incidentally, nobody never thought about the great housekeepers conspiracy, i don’t know try to think broader. it look like a simple obsessive frustration and finally weak up the all intellectual construction and i think that a lot of people think the same and not only the combined kind of neo-cons jews lovers
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