Laws against the Denial of Historical Atrocities:

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" Laws against the Denial of Historical Atrocities: "
Jeroen Temperman

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082466
Doc. No	:	LA126095
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18710328-12341266‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jeroen Temperman
Title & Author	:	Laws against the Denial of Historical Atrocities: [Article] : A Human Rights Analysis\ Jeroen Temperman
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion Human Rights
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	9/2-3
Page No	:	151–180
Abstract	:	This article ventures into the contentious question of whether the denial of historical atrocities is per se removed from the protection of freedom of expression and the related question if states may under international human rights law proactively combat, through criminal legislation (‘memory laws’), such types of extreme speech. In so doing, the article compares and contrasts approaches employed by the un Human Rights Committee that monitors the un International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights with that of the European Court of Human Rights, regional watchdog of the European Convention on Human Rights. It is argued that both approaches are shifting—though not quite in converging directions. The article makes a case for a contextual rather than exclusively content-based approach. An approach in which the question of ‘likelihood of harm being done to the targeted group’ is guiding, best resonates with the necessity principle.
Descriptor	:	abuse of right
Descriptor	:	Article 20 iccpr
Descriptor	:	denial of historical atrocities
Descriptor	:	European Convention on Human Rights
Descriptor	:	European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
Descriptor	:	freedom of expression
Descriptor	:	hate speech
Descriptor	:	Holocaust denial
Descriptor	:	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Descriptor	:	incitement
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18710328-12341266‬