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| '''Sylvia Stolz''' is a ] ] who defended ] at his trial for denying the ] in February 2007. During that trial she called the Holocaust “the biggest lie in world history”. Zundel was convicted and is serving five years in prison. Stolz was in turn tried for the same offense and is currently serving a 3 1/2 year prison term. She also was banned from the practice of law for five years. <ref></ref> | '''Sylvia Stolz''' is a ] ] who defended ] at his trial for denying the ] in February 2007. During that trial she called the Holocaust “the biggest lie in world history”. Zundel was convicted and is serving five years in prison. Stolz was in turn tried for the same offense and is currently serving a 3 1/2 year prison term. She also was banned from the practice of law for five years. <ref></ref> | ||
| Both trials involved supposed violations of Section 130 of the BRDDR Penal Code, which reads as follows: | |||
| Section 130 Incitement of the Masses | |||
| "Any person who, in a manner likely to disturb the public peace, assails the human dignity of others in that he | |||
| 1. provokes hatred against sections of the population; | |||
| 2. calls for the commission of acts of violence or the taking of arbitrary measures against them; or | |||
| 3. vilifies, maliciously disparages or defames them; shall be liable to imprisonment of not less than three months or more than five years."<ref></ref> | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
| {{Reflist}} | {{Reflist}} | ||
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Sylvia Stolz is a German lawyer who defended Ernst Zundel at his trial for denying the Holocaust in February 2007. During that trial she called the Holocaust “the biggest lie in world history”. Zundel was convicted and is serving five years in prison. Stolz was in turn tried for the same offense and is currently serving a 3 1/2 year prison term. She also was banned from the practice of law for five years.
Both trials involved supposed violations of Section 130 of the BRDDR Penal Code, which reads as follows:
Section 130 Incitement of the Masses
"Any person who, in a manner likely to disturb the public peace, assails the human dignity of others in that he
1. provokes hatred against sections of the population;
2. calls for the commission of acts of violence or the taking of arbitrary measures against them; or
3. vilifies, maliciously disparages or defames them; shall be liable to imprisonment of not less than three months or more than five years."
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