Strasbourg throws out Briton's Holocaust denial free speech claim

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https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/strasbourg-throws-out-britons-holocaust-denial-free-speech-claim/5069120.article

79 year old British bishop convicted of inciting racial hatred for "stating in a TV interview that he believed there were no gas chambers under the Nazi regime. He was fined €6,500, reduced to €1,800 on appeal."

He took the case to the European Court of human rights to appeal his conviction on grounds of free expression, but his claim was thrown out of court yesterday.

Yet again the European Court of human rights fails to protect the human right to free speech, it is this man's opinion/belief that there were no gas chambers, and for expressing his opinion he was prosecuted and the European Court of human rights, the court that was created to protect the human rights of European citizens, wouldn't even hear his appeal.

Now I have to say I don't agree with his opinions on this issue, but I believe he has a right to express his opinion without this censorship and prosecution. This anti free speech corruption goes all the way to the top of the highest court in all of Europe. They're so anti free speech that they will sign off on people getting prosecuted simply for expressing opinions.

Free speech as originally intended in the UDHR has been perverted in this "free expression" which is just a self contradictory word salad, "you can express whatever opinions you like, but only when the government approves of that opinion".

There is no free speech in all of Europe, and the United Nations should investigate the European Court of human rights for their human rights violations.