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    SWISS APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS CONVICTION OF GENOCIDE DENIERS

    http://hetq.am/en/world/26721/
    2010/02/12 | 10:16

    World

    The Zurich Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the verdict of a Swiss
    district court that found three Swiss citizens of Turkish descent
    guilty of denying the Armenian Genocide.

    The defendants, Ali Mercan, Hasan Kemahli and Ethem Kayali had
    denounced the Armenian Genocide as a pack of lies at a meeting in
    2007 in the Swiss district of Winterthur. Mercan is the foreign
    representative of the Turkey-based Workers Party, while Kemahli and
    Kayali are members of a Turkish-based think tank.

    In March 2007, Dogu Perincek, the leader of the Workers Party, was
    similarly found guilty by a Swiss district court of conscious violation
    of Swiss laws against genocide denial with a racist motivation and
    was fined 12,000 Swiss francs (17,000 Turkish Liras).
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