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Ha'aretz

Israel, Saturday, September 18, 2004

New Zealand blocks Holocaust denier's visit

By DPA and Haaretz Service

Image by this website: Qantas manager
at LAX hands documents to Mr Irving

WELLINGTON [New Zealand] - Holocaust denier David Irving was barred from boarding a New Zealand-bound Qantas flight in Los Angeles, the Dominion Post newspaper reported on Saturday.

Qantas manager, Irving\

Qantas staff told Irving he could not board without an entry visa from the New Zealand embassy in Washington.

Associate Immigration Minister Damien O'Connor said Irving had been refused entry because he was a prohibited person having been convicted of an immigration offense in Canada.

But Irving said that in denying him entry the New Zealand government was "stamping on free speech."

The newspaper reported Irving as saying he would take legal action over his ban from New Zealand and that Prime Minister Helen Clark had made "a serious mistake."

Irving had planned to do research in New Zealand and speak at the National Press Club in Wellington.

Jewish organizations in New Zealand demanded in July that New Zealand bar Irving's entry into the country, Army Radio reported then. Irving is barred from entering Australia.

He has been denounced by a British court as pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic and a Holocaust denier, angering Jews by labeleing the Holocaust "a legend."

Or contact Prime Minister Helen Clark; Phone: 0064 4 471 9998; Fax: 0064 4 473 3579

 

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