A Christian political party in the Netherlands proposed a bill to make Holocaust and genocide denial a criminal offense. The proposed law would make illegal the “denial, trivialization, approval or justification of genocide and crimes against humanity,” with punishments of up to one year imprisonment or large fines.
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