Post by cjm on Oct 16, 2015 8:10:07 GMT
www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/europe-court-backs-reject-armenian-genocide-151015104909932.html
Europe court: Denying 'Armenian Genocide' not a crime
Switzerland found to have violated Turkish politician's right to freedom of speech by convicting him in 2007.
Umut Uras | 16 Oct 2015 05:58 GMT | Human Rights, Europe, Turkey, Switzerland
Perincek publicly called the genocide an 'international lie' while in Switzerland in 2005 [Reuters]
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Switzerland violated a Turkish politician's right to freedom of speech by convicting him for rejecting the claim that the 1915 Armenian killings in the Ottoman empire constituted a genocide.
The court, ECHR, concluded in its final binding judgement on Thursday that it had not been necessary, in a democratic society, to subject to a criminal penalty in order to protect the rights of the Armenian community at stake in the case.
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Europe court: Denying 'Armenian Genocide' not a crime
Switzerland found to have violated Turkish politician's right to freedom of speech by convicting him in 2007.
Umut Uras | 16 Oct 2015 05:58 GMT | Human Rights, Europe, Turkey, Switzerland
Perincek publicly called the genocide an 'international lie' while in Switzerland in 2005 [Reuters]
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Switzerland violated a Turkish politician's right to freedom of speech by convicting him for rejecting the claim that the 1915 Armenian killings in the Ottoman empire constituted a genocide.
The court, ECHR, concluded in its final binding judgement on Thursday that it had not been necessary, in a democratic society, to subject to a criminal penalty in order to protect the rights of the Armenian community at stake in the case.
...