Sadouqi Says Jewish Lobby Against Disclosure of Facts -* COURT OF APPEALS TOUGHENS GARAUDY'S SENTENCE-* GARAUDY PUNISHED FOR WRITING TRUTH<D>-<M>* NO TOLERANCE DISPLAYED BY FRANCE<D>
December 17, 1998 - 0:0
TEHRAN A court of appeals in Paris toughened the sentence of French writer Roger Garaudy yesterday. The appeals court increased the penalty of Garaudy as follows: the cash penalty was increased from 120,000 franks to 160,000 and he was sentenced to nine months suspended imprisonment. Garaudy did not attend the court himself. After the verdict was issued, Garaudy said, the doors of media are closed to me.
The verdict was issued due to the pressures of the Zionist lobby. He complaint that a blasphemous writer like Rushdie is supported but a free thinker is sentenced. An expert in Iran blasted France for not tolerating any move against Jewish lobby.' Garaudy was tried in a French court for writing what was said by Jewish lobby to be anti-semitic and revisionist material.' Shahid Beheshti University Professor Dr. Hassan Sadouqi, talking to the TEHRAN TIMES yesterday, said, Paris, which is claimed to be the cradle of civilization and liberty, does not tolerate any move against the Zionists, no matter what the truth is.
Sadouqi recalled that when he was a student in France, the witnessed similar cases. When I was Iran's ambassador to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a magazine was published by Algerian freedom fighters, Saduqi recalled, adding, The French security forces immediately banned the magazine and collected the copies from the newsstands in Paris. The Jewish Lobby has created an artificial atmosphere in which Jews are portrayed as an oppressed nation, which is distortion of historic facts, he said, adding that the Zionists have tried to propagate the idea in the West that the Westerners are not ready to listen to the facts.
According to a report from Paris, dispatched by the German news agency DPA, the verdict of the court of appeal against Garaudy was due to be issued late in the evening yesterday. The ruling is due to condemn Garaudy for writing a book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics, in which he exposed the Zionists plots. The pro-Zionists had taken Garaudy to the court because, in his book, he had questioned the extermination of Jews, arguing that calling Nazi crimes a genocide was an exaggeration.
The verdict was issued due to the pressures of the Zionist lobby. He complaint that a blasphemous writer like Rushdie is supported but a free thinker is sentenced. An expert in Iran blasted France for not tolerating any move against Jewish lobby.' Garaudy was tried in a French court for writing what was said by Jewish lobby to be anti-semitic and revisionist material.' Shahid Beheshti University Professor Dr. Hassan Sadouqi, talking to the TEHRAN TIMES yesterday, said, Paris, which is claimed to be the cradle of civilization and liberty, does not tolerate any move against the Zionists, no matter what the truth is.
Sadouqi recalled that when he was a student in France, the witnessed similar cases. When I was Iran's ambassador to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a magazine was published by Algerian freedom fighters, Saduqi recalled, adding, The French security forces immediately banned the magazine and collected the copies from the newsstands in Paris. The Jewish Lobby has created an artificial atmosphere in which Jews are portrayed as an oppressed nation, which is distortion of historic facts, he said, adding that the Zionists have tried to propagate the idea in the West that the Westerners are not ready to listen to the facts.
According to a report from Paris, dispatched by the German news agency DPA, the verdict of the court of appeal against Garaudy was due to be issued late in the evening yesterday. The ruling is due to condemn Garaudy for writing a book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics, in which he exposed the Zionists plots. The pro-Zionists had taken Garaudy to the court because, in his book, he had questioned the extermination of Jews, arguing that calling Nazi crimes a genocide was an exaggeration.