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On December 11, 2006, the Iranian state-sponsored "[[International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust]]" opened to widespread condemnation.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/11/iran.holocaust/index.html |title=Iran hosts Holocaust conference |accessdate=December 27, 2006 |date=December 11, 2006 |publisher=CNN}}</ref> The conference, called for by and held at the behest of Ahmadinejad,<ref>{{Cite journal |url= |title=Iran: Holocaust Conference Soon in Tehran <!--|accessdate=December 27, 2006--> |date=January 5, 2006 |publisher=Adnkronos International (AKI) |postscript=<!--None-->}}</ref> was widely described as a "Holocaust denial conference" or a "meeting of Holocaust deniers",<ref>*[http://washingtontimes.com/world/20061213-120143-8384r.htm "Holocaust denial outrages Europe"], ''[[The Washington Times]]'', December 13, 2006.
*[http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=c4b5cf88-207a-487d-b785-b97e119099d8 "Holocaust deniers gather in Iran"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011091846/http://canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=c4b5cf88-207a-487d-b785-b97e119099d8 |date=October 11, 2007 }}, ''[[Edmonton Journal]]'', December 13, 2006.
*[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-holocaust13dec13,1,5920414.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true "Holocaust deniers rebuked"]. ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', December 13, 2006.
*[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061213.wxholocaustprof13/BNStory/International/home "Canadian prof attends Tehran's gathering of Holocaust deniers"], ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', December 13, 2006.
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*[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/12/europe/EU_GEN_Europe_Holocaust_Denial.php "Across Europe, outrage over meeting of Holocaust deniers in Iran"], ''[[International Herald Tribune]]'', December 12, 2006.
*[https://www.theguardian.com/israel/Story/0,,1970042,00.html "Holocaust deniers gather in Iran for 'scientific' conference"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', December 12, 2006.
*[http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2067598.ece "Revisionist fringe gathers for Iran's Holocaust denial jamboree"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108183925/http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2067598.ece |date=January 8, 2007 }}, ''[[The Independent]]'', December 12, 2006.
*[https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=auGTWx2QrILM&refer=home "Holocaust Denied at Iran Forum to 'Research' Nazis"], ''[[Bloomberg Television]]'', December 11, 2006.
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/world/middleeast/11cnd-iran.html?hp&ex=1165899600&en=89a54e1e0974643d&ei=5094&partner=homepage "Holocaust Deniers and Skeptics Gather in Iran"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 11, 2006.
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==Laws against Holocaust denial==
{{Main|Laws against Holocaust denial}}
Holocaust denial is explicitly or implicitly illegal in 17 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Switzerland.<ref>Lechtholz-Zey, Jacqueline: Laws Banning Holocaust Denial. [http://www.genocidepreventionnow.org/2010/06/laws-banning-holocaust-denial.html Genocide Prevention Now.]. Retrieved September 29, 2010.</ref><ref>JTA | Russia Makes Holocaust Denial Illegal | http://www.jta.org/2014/05/05/news-opinion/world/russia-makes-holocaust-denial-illegal</ref> Romania officially denied the Holocaust occurred on its territory up until the [[Wiesel Commission]] in 2004.<ref name=bbc-news>{{cite news|title=Romania holds first Holocaust Day|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3736864.stm|accessdate=24 September 2013|newspaper=[[BBC News]]|date=12 October 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2997616.stm |title=Romania sparks Holocaust row |work=BBC News |date=June 17, 2003 |accessdate=May 22, 2010 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5wQo4lXSx?url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2997616.stm |archivedate=February 12, 2011 |deadurl=no |df=mdy }}</ref> The European Union's Framework decision on Racism and Xenophobia states that denying or grossly trivializing "crimes of genocide" should be made "punishable in all [[EU Member States]]".<ref>[http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/misc/93739.pdf See Luxembourg, April 19, 2007, 8665/07 (Presse 84)]</ref> Slovakia criminalized denial of fascist crimes in general in late 2001; in May 2005, the term "Holocaust" was explicitly adopted by the penal code and in 2009, it became illegal to deny any act regarded by an international criminal court as genocide. In 2010 the Parliament of Hungary adopted legislation punishing the denial of the genocides committed by National Socialist or Communist systems, without mentioning the word "Holocaust".<ref>[http://rt.com/Politics/2010-06-10/nazism-communism-hungary-equate.html Hungary equates Communism to Nazism] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726120759/http://rt.com/Politics/2010-06-10/nazism-communism-hungary-equate.html |date=July 26, 2010 }}, rt.com</ref>
Such legislation remains controversial. In October 2007, a tribunal declared Spain's Holocaust denial law [[unconstitutional]].<ref>By way of [http://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/jurisprudencia/Stc2007/STC2007-5152-2000.html judgment of November 7, 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215233053/http://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/jurisprudencia/Stc2007/STC2007-5152-2000.html |date=February 15, 2008 }} of the [[Constitutional Court of Spain]], which ruled the criminalization to be unconstitutional and void.</ref> In 2007 Italy rejected a denial law proposing a prison sentence of up to four years. In 2006 the Netherlands rejected a draft law proposing a maximum sentence of one year on denial of genocidal acts in general, although specifically denying the Holocaust remains a criminal offense there. The United Kingdom has twice rejected [[Laws against Holocaust denial|Holocaust denial laws]]. Denmark and Sweden have also rejected such legislation.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/world/europe/19iht-eu.4.5359640.html EU adopts measure outlawing Holocaust denial<!-- Bot generated title -->]. By Dan Bilefsky. ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 19, 2007 .</ref>
A number of deniers have been prosecuted under various countries' denial laws. French literature professor [[Robert Faurisson]], for example, was convicted and punished under the [[Gayssot Act]] in 1990. Some historians oppose such laws, among them [[Pierre Vidal-Naquet]], an outspoken critic of Faurisson, on the grounds that denial legislation imposes "historical truth as legal truth".<ref>''To live with Faurisson? Any other attitude would imply that we were imposing historical truth as legal truth, which is a dangerous attitude available to other fields of application.'' [http://www.anti-rev.org/textes/VidalNaquet92a/ Pierre Vidal-Naquet: A Paper Eichmann (1980) – Anatomy of a Lie (10) ]</ref> Other academics favor [[criminalization]]. Holocaust denial, they contend, is "the worst form of racism and its most respectable version because it pretends to be a research".<ref>François de Smet, Philosopher of the [[Université Libre de Bruxelles|ULB]]: ''Le négationnisme est l’une des pires formes de racisme. Elle en est aussi sa version la plus « respectable », se parant des oripeaux de la science. C’est pour cela qu’il faut continuer à le sanctionner'', in ''[[La Libre Belgique]]'', on April 28, 2006</ref>
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