As of 11 February 2022, several bills criminalizing the act are pending in Congress. While holocaust denial is not explicitly prohibited in Brazilian law, precedents tend to lead to conviction. 9,459/97 establish imprisonment and a fine for anyone who produces, markets, distributes or disseminates symbols, emblems, ornaments, badges or propaganda that use the swastika to advocate Nazism. Johnson, guarantees the right to freedom of speech. Though controversial, public display of Nazi flags is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution which, affirmed by the Supreme Court case Texas v. However, sections 318–320 of the Criminal Code, adopted by Canada's parliament in 1970 and based in large part on the 1965 Cohen Committee recommendations, make it an offence to advocate or promote genocide, to communicate a statement in public inciting hatred against an identifiable group where it is likely to cause a breach of the public peace, or to communicate a statement which wilfully promotes hatred (other than in private conversation) against an identifiable group and provides a framework for the judicially-authorized seizure, forfeiture and disposal of hate propaganda. North America Canada Ĭanada has no legislation specifically restricting the ownership, display, purchase, import or export of Nazi flags. The use of Nazi symbols are legal in Thailand. Public displaying Nazi symbol, flag and other fascist-alike stuff in China is also violate the advocating or glorifying wars of aggression or aggressive conduct under the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Heroes and Martyrs. According to Article 249 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, if a person incites ethnic hatred or ethnic discrimination and the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment not more than three years, detention, supervision or deprivation of political rights if the circumstances are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment not less than three years but not more than ten years. Subject to administrative punishment as above. According to Article 47 of the Public Security Administration Punishment Law, anyone who incites ethnic hatred or ethnic discrimination, or publishes ethnic discriminatory or insulting content in publications or computer information networks shall be sentenced to detention for not less than ten days and not more than fifteen days, and may be fined not more than one thousand yuan. The use of Nazi symbols are illegal in China. The use of Nazi symbols has been legal in Israel since early 2012. It is possible to display certain non-Nazi swastikas even in areas where Nazi swastikas are prohibited.Īfter the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Holocaust denial, which is questioned by Ali Khamenei and Nazi symbols are legal in Iran though it dates to the 1940s during the Pahlavi era. Outside of Nazism, use of swastikas prior to the German Third Reich by some 3,000 years. Many Nazi flags make use of the swastika symbol however, the swastika is not always used in connection with the National Socialist German Workers' Party movement or of the German Third Reich or the combined German military of 1933–1945. While legal in the majority of countries, the display of flags associated with the Nazi government (see: Nazi flags) is subject to restriction or an outright ban in several European countries. The use of flags from the Nazi Germany (1933–1945) is currently subject to legal restrictions in a number of countries. 3:5 The former national flag from 1935 to 1945 with an off-centre circle and swastika.