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City New Zealand, Thursday, September 16,
2004 Lawyer campaigns on
behalf of David Irving Immigration
lawyer Colin Amery says he will try to get
controversial historian David Irving into New
Zealand THE immigration lawyer who battled
unsuccessfully on behalf of Iranian overstayer
Saied Ghanbari is now taking up the cudgels
on behalf of Holocaust
denier David Irving. The controversial
historian has been invited to address the National
Press Club. Lawyer Colin Amery has requested
more details of the ban under the Official
Information Act, but has not yet received a reply.
He believes it is an issue of free speech. Colin
Amery says he has managed to confirm Mr Irving has
been banned from entering the country. However Mr
Amery says that will not stop him trying. He says he is having trouble getting the
official details on which to base a challenge,
after asking under the Official Information Act for
more information. He says he has not had the
courtesy of a reply, or any response whatsoever. In
the past, the Government has said that given the
fact that the historian has been banned by other
countries, it would refuse him entry. However, Mr
Irving says his deportation
from Canada 13 years ago was merely a technical
one. David Irving plans to turn up to the Qantas
counter at LA airport this evening [Thursday,
September 16, 2004] and present his ticket for
New Zealand. Mr Amery says Mr Irving expects to be
turned away.  Earlier
this week, Deputy Prime Minister Michael
Cullen told Newstalk ZB that if Mr Irving tries
to force his way on to a plane, that simply shows
that he has little respect for the rule of law. He
says that if need be, Irving will be stopped from
boarding a plane by the "biggest stewardess they
can find". Colin Amery says Mr Irving is not
planning to deal with the Holocaust issue in his
speech. 
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