At this video link on Bitchute: Who is Sylvia Stolz ? November 2012 Chur Switzerland
https://www.bitchute.com/video/OPrLvEwbu60P/ mirrored video
SPEECH FORBIDDEN, EVIDENCE FORBIDDEN, LEGAL DEFENCE FORBIDDEN: THE REALITY OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
On 24 November 2012, dissident German lawyer Sylvia Stolz appeared at the eighth annual meeting of the "Anti-Censorship Coalition" [Anti-Zensur-Koalition (AZK)] in Chur, Switzerland, where she presented a speech entitled "Speech Forbidden, Evidence Forbidden, Legal Defence Forbidden: The Reality of Freedom of Expression" (Sprechverbot, Beweisverbot, Verteidigungsverbot: Die Wirklichkeit der Meinungsfreiheit).
In the speech, Stolz discusses her experiences as a defence lawyer for so-called Holocaust deniers in Germany, and describes the Orwellian system of state-enforced repression there which denies defendants (and their lawyers!) the right to explain themselves under threat of additional charges for the "repeat offence" of expressing a forbidden idea, even in their own defence in a court of law. Stolz further relates how the subject of the Holocaust itself has never been clearly or adequately defined by the German courts through the normal channel of judicial findings-of-fact in precedent decisions. Instead, the courts have relied on the arbitrary doctrine that the facts of the Holocaust are "self-evident" and thus in no need of proof, despite the obvious objection that the arguments of the "deniers" themselves clearly demonstrate that those facts are indeed contestable and thus cannot be "self-evident" by definition.
In the face of such abuses and absurdities, other lawyers might throw up their hands and simply walk away: Sylvia Stolz has the courage to call injustice what it is, and take a stand. Her speech is an extraordinary document of our times, a deeply moving call "to think what is true, to feel what is beautiful, and to want what is good." Wherever you may fall along the ideological spectrum, if you believe in freedom of expression, this speech is a must.
And of course there's one last outrageous twist to the story. On 25 February 2015, the German legal system heaped shame upon itself once more by sentencing Sylvia Stolz to twenty months in prison* for "racial incitation" on the basis of what she says in this video ....
*This was in addition to the three years and three months they had already given Stolz for insisting on defending civil rights activist, Ernst Zundel, properly in court some years earlier."
