An Ontario appeals court has upheld restrictions placed on convicted neo-Nazi propagandist Ernst Zundel which successfully barred him from writing or commenting on the Holocaust.
Associate Chief Justice Bert MacKinnon of the Ontario Court of Appeals ruled in a written judgement last month that the judicial restraint on Zundel’s writing and speaking is reasonable and justified.
Zundel was convicted last year of publishing the pamphlet “Did Six Million Really Die?” which stated that the Holocaust was a hoax. He was sentenced to 15 months in jail. He is out on $10,000 bail awaiting appeal of his conviction.
Zundel told reporters before the appeals court ruling that the restrictions placed on his speaking on the Holocaust infringed on his human rights, and amounted to a “gag” order. In response to his argument that the ban was a form of “prior restraint,” MacKinnon held that the restraint was “not one imposed before trial and conviction.”
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