 On 3 October 2019, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously decided on the case Pastörs v. Germany (application no.55225/14) that a decision from the German Courts sentencing him to eight months’ imprisonment, suspended on probation, based on the fact that a speech made by German politician Udo Pastörs stating that “the so-called Holocaust is being used for political and commercial purposes”, as well as other holocaust denial comments, incurred in violation of the memory of the dead and of the intentional defamation of the Jewish people was not a violation of the Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights.Also, the ECtHR also decided by four votes to three that there had been no violation of Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights.