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Press Article
London, November 17, 1998
S WE HAVE learned today from early editions of The Daily Telegraph, a Spanish Court has yesterday sentenced Spanish publisher Pedro Varela to five years in jail under Spain’s new laws for the suppression of free speech. As
announced earlier, Spanish police raided his Barcelona bookstore and publishing firm last year and seized thousands of books.
Censorship: The news item was removed from all but the earliest editions of the British newspaper. AR-Online will update this page as soon as more information becomes available.
Pedro Varela is seen on the left with Mr David Irving at a demonstration organised outside the Sender Freies Berlin television station on October 3, 1989
PEDRO VARELA, 41, owner of a neo-Nazi bookshop in Barcelona, was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison on charges of spreading racial hatred and denying that the Holocaust happened. Police raided his shop and house two years ago and seized thousands of neo-Nazi books, publications and videos. A law passed two years ago in Spain makes it a criminal offence to justify genocide and promote racial hatred. Tim Brown, Madrid