Editing Historical negationism (section)

===Domestic law===
There are domestic laws against negationism and [[hate speech]] (which may encompass negationism) in several countries, including:

* Austria (Article I §3 [[Verbotsgesetz 1947]] with its 1992 updates and added paragraph §3h).<ref>[http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/BgblPdf/1992_148_0/1992_148_0.pdf ''148. Bundesverfassungsgesetz: Verbotsgesetz-Novelle 1992''], Austrian federal law gazette, 19 March 1992, {{in lang|de}}</ref>
* Belgium ([[Belgian Holocaust denial law]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2017-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/belgium/|title=2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Belgium|date=20 April 2017|website=U. S. Department of State|access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref>
* Czech Republic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2017-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/czech-republic/|title=2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Czech Republic|date=20 April 2018|website=U. S. Department of State|access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref>
* France ([[Gayssot Act]]).
* Germany (§130(3) of the penal code).<ref name="§130(3) of the German penal code">[http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__130.html Text of §130(3) of the German penal code] (in German).</ref>
* Hungary.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2017-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/hungary/|title=2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Hungary|date=20 April 2018|website=U. S. Department of State|access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref>
* Israel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/history/holocaust/pages/denial%20of%20holocaust%20-prohibition-%20law-%205746-1986-.aspx|title=Denial of Holocaust -Prohibition- Law- 5746-1986-|date=8 July 1986|website=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs|access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref>
* [[Lithuania]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2017-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/lithuania/|title=2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Lithuania|date=20 April 2018|website=U. S. Department of State|access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref>
* [[Luxembourg]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2017-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/luxembourg/|title=2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Luxembourg|date=20 April 2018|website=U. S. Department of State|access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref>
* Poland (Article 55 of the law establishing the [[Institute of National Remembrance]] 1998).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ipn.gov.pl/en/about-the-ipn/documents/327,The-Act-on-the-Institute-of-National-Remembrance.html#page|title=The Act on the Institute of National Remembrance|date=16 June 2016|website=Institute of National Remembrance|access-date=16 May 2019|archive-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830073457/http://ipn.gov.pl/en/about-the-ipn/documents/327,The-Act-on-the-Institute-of-National-Remembrance.html#page|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Portugal.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=October 2014|title=Comparative study on legislation sanctioning hate speech and discrimination in the member states of the European Union|url=http://discursfaradiscriminare.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Comparative-Study.pdf|journal=Comparative Study on Legislation Sanctioning Hate Speech and Discrimination in the Member States of the European Union|pages=46, 47, 48}}</ref>
* Romania.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=October 2014|title=Comparative study on legislation sanctioning hate speech and discrimination in the member states of the European Union|url=http://discursfaradiscriminare.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Comparative-Study.pdf|journal=Comparative Study on Legislation Sanctioning Hate Speech and Discrimination in the Member States of the European Union|pages=57, 58, 59, 60}}</ref>
* [[Slovakia]].<ref>{{Cite journal|date=October 2014|title=Comparative study on legislation sanctioning hate speech and discrimination in the member states of the European Union|url=http://discursfaradiscriminare.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Comparative-Study.pdf|journal=Comparative Study on Legislation Sanctioning Hate Speech and Discrimination in the Member States of the European Union|pages=48, 49, 50, 51}}</ref>
* Switzerland (Article 261bis of the Penal Code).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gorton|first=Sean|date=2015|title=THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF GENOCIDE DENIAL LAWS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION|journal=George Washington International Law Review|volume=47|issue=2|pages=421–445|via=ProQuest}}</ref>

Additionally, the Netherlands considers denying the Holocaust as a [[hate crime]] – which is a punishable offence.<ref name="The Laws Banning Holocaust Denial">[http://beta.genocidepreventionnow.org/Portals/0/docs/Laws_Banning_Holocaust%20Denial_blog.pdf The Laws Banning Holocaust Denial] {{Webarchive|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111027125404/http://beta.genocidepreventionnow.org/Portals/0/docs/Laws_Banning_Holocaust%20Denial_blog.pdf |date=27 October 2011 }} Genocide Prevention Now. Retrieved 28 November 2011. pp. 1–9</ref> Wider use of domestic laws include the 1990 French ''[[loi Gayssot|Gayssot Act]]'' that prohibits any "racist, anti-Semitic or [[xenophobia|xenophobic]]" speech,<ref name="The Laws Banning Holocaust Denial"/> and the Czech Republic<ref>{{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100555.htm|title=2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Czech Republic|date=11 March 2008 |access-date=17 October 2016}}</ref> and Ukraine<ref>[http://www.day.kiev.ua/179841/ Holodomor and Holocaust denial to be a criminal offense], The Day</ref> have criminalized the denial and the minimization of [[Crimes against humanity under communist regimes|Communist-era crimes]].