AUSTRIA: British right-wing historian David Irving has been arrested on a warrant accusing him of denying the Holocaust, Austria's interior ministry said yesterday.
Irving was arrested on November 11th in the southern province of Styria. He was transferred to a prison in Graz.
Irving was detained on a warrant issued in 1989 under Austrian laws that make Holocaust denial a crime. The charges stemmed from speeches Irving delivered that year in Vienna and in the southern town of Leoben.
In a statement posted on his website, Irving's supporters said he was arrested while on a one-day visit to Vienna, where they said he had been invited "by courageous students to address an ancient university association". Despite precautions taken by Irving, he was arrested by police who allegedly learned of his visit "by wiretaps or intercepting e-mails", the statement alleged.
Irving remains in custody, the Austria Press Agency said. - (PA)
