Overlay · Holocaust / genocide denial

Holocaust / genocide denial

A content-based historical-truth overlay. Distinct from speech next to designation of a live listed group. Do not use it as proof that the United States has a listed-speech offence.

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Supported

Live in Germany §130(3), France (Gayssot), EU FD 2008/913 Art. 1(1)(c)–(d). No US federal equivalent.

Not interchangeable with IHRA. Denial statutes are older and narrower.

Content ban on a closed historical set, not an open-ended hostility test.

Creep row

Classification by sector. Live means a quoted instrument. Architecture means the statute already covers the sector. Unproven means no pack.
Overlay	Criminal speechDirect offence	EducationSchools / campus	EmploymentWorkplace duty	PlatformsOSA / DSA / duty of care	Other fundedHousing, health, transit	ImmigrationStatus bar	Police recordingBelow-crime incidents	ProgrammePrevent / exchanges
Holocaust / genocide denial	Live, cited	Pointed, not quoted	Not this form	Pointed, not quoted	Not this form	Not this form	Not this form	Not this form

Live, cited
Documented hop
Architecture only
Pointed, not quoted
Not this form
Unproven

This is a pattern grid over cited instruments, not a completed worldwide fact. Hover a cell where a note exists. Open a sticker for the quoted clause.

Cited venues for this sticker

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Crime — criminal speech or hate offence, cited
Duty — institutional / funding / platform duty
Def. — working definition imported
Prog. — programme, not a statute
— not this form

Quoted clauses

Also in the matrix

Live statuteSupportedCHRacial hatred

Art. 261bis

Swiss Criminal Code

Target: Discrimination and incitement to hatred
Test: Public incitement to hatred or discrimination on race, ethnic origin, religion, or sexual orientation; including genocide denial/trivialisation; and refusal of a public service on those grounds.
Max: Custodial sentence not exceeding 3 years or a monetary penalty

Live statuteSupportedCOHolocaust / genocide denial

art. 102

Código Penal (Ley 599 de 2000)

Target: Apología del genocidio — disseminating ideas that promote, justify, or seek to rehabilitate genocide or antisemitism
Test: By any means. Overlay / denial cell, not glorification of a live designated terrorist group.
Max: 96 to 180 months, plus fine and public-rights disqualification

Live statuteSupportedITRacial hatred

art. 604-bis

Codice penale

Target: Propaganda and incitement to crime on racial, ethnic, national, or religious grounds
Test: Propaganda of superiority/hatred or incitement to discrimination (a); incitement to violence (b). Aggravator for Holocaust/genocide denial or apologia with concrete danger of spread.
Max: 18 months or €6,000 (a); 6 months to 4 years (b); 2 to 6 years on the denial/apologia aggravator

Live statuteSupportedRWHolocaust / genocide denial

art. 4

Law n° 59/2018 of 22/8/2018 on the Crime of Genocide Ideology and Related Crimes

Target: Public act that manifests an ideology supporting or advocating destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group
Test: In public, verbally, in writing, through images, or in any other manner. This is genocide ideology, not a listed-speech offence.
Max: 5 to 7 years and a fine of FRW 500,000 to 1,000,000