New Criminologist News: Right-wing British historian David Irving arrested in Austria for denying the Holocaust

Disgraced British historian David Irving was arrested in Austria last week, according to a statement on his Web site. Although he has not yet been charged, he is suspected of the crime of Holocaust denial. Irving, 67, was detained Nov. 11 in the southern province of Styria on a warrant issued in 1989 under Austrian laws making denying the Holocaust a crime, police Maj. Rudolf Gollia, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said Thursday. Government officials told the news agency that Mr. Irving had been wanted since 1989, when a warrant was issued for his arrest in connection with speeches he had made in Vienna and in Leoben, in southern Austria. But they said they had not decided whether it was appropriate to charge him so many years after the fact. If he is tried and found guilty, he could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison, officials told Reuters. Mr. Irving has had other trouble with the law for similar reasons. In 1992 a German judge fined him $6,000 after he publicly asserted that no gas chambers had been used in Auschwitz, a claim he has often made. In the past he has been refused entry to Germany, Australia, Canada, Austria and Italy. siehe auch: Stifling opinion, UK Historian Irving Arrested on Holocaust Denial, Historian held as Holocaust denier. Austria nabs British writer on '89 warrant, Austria arrests historian who has disputed Holocaust claims, Irving faces week in Austria cell. The revisionist British historian David Irving is likely to remain in custody in Austria for at least a week, prosecutors say, Holocaust denier Irving under lock and key. DISGRACED Holocaust denier David Irving has been arrested in Austria for claiming the murder of 6 million Jews in World War II never happened. He could face up to 10 years' jail, David Irving held on Holocaust denial charges. Right-wing British historian David Irving has been arrested on a warrant accusing him of denying the Holocaust, Austria's Interior Ministry said yesterday, Profile: David Irving. The arrest of David Irving, for allegedly denying that the Holocaust ever happened, is but the latest twist in a highly controversial career as an historian, How 'Holocaust denier' fought and lost. David Irving's reputation as a historian was shredded at the High Court in April 2000 in a devastating judgement