Free Speech on Trial in Austria … and Europe

by Soeren Kern
Pajamas Media
January 23, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1091/free-speech-on-trial-in-austria-and-europe

Excerpt:

The "hate speech" trial of the Austrian housewife and anti-Islam activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff resumed at a Vienna courthouse on January 18, following a two-month break in the hearings. Sabaditsch-Wolff, who has been charged with "incitement of hatred" and "denigrating religious teachings" after giving a series of seminars about the dangers of radical Islam, faces a possible three year prison sentence. Her case, which is eerily similar to the one involving the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, reflects the growing use of lawfare, the malicious use of European courts to silence politically incorrect speech about Islam.

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