American David Duke, a former Louisiana State Representative and ex-Ku Klux Klan leader, attended the conference. Politician Georges Theil, a member of the French National Front who was convicted under France's Holocaust denial laws, attended, as did the German-Australian Fredrick Töben, founder and head of the Adelaide Institute who had been imprisoned in Germany for three months in 1999 for Holocaust denial. Robert Faurisson, a convicted Holocaust denier from France also attended, as well as Ahmed Rami, a Swedish-Moroccan Holocaust denier who was imprisoned in Sweden for inciting racial hatred. Psychologist Bendikt Frings, a leading member of the German National Democratic Party (NPD), was invited by Iranian Deputy Minister of Islamic Guidance Mohammad-Ali Ramin; Frings said that he had waited for such a conference "all my childhood". The NPD is often considered the most significant Neo-Nazi party in Germany.