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SWISS FEDERAL COURT CONDEMNS GENOCIDE DENIER
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[07:55 pm] 19 December, 2007
At the end of a long fight, the Swiss-Armenian Association has learnt
with great satisfaction of the Federal Court's ruling published today
that the President of the Party of Turkish Workers, Dogu Perincek,
has been condemned as guilty of racial discrimination (article 261
bis of the Penal code).
Dogu Perincek had repeatedly asserted in 2005 that the genocide of
Armenians in 1915 - during which about 1.5 million Armenians were
killed - is an "international lie".
Dogu Perincek has been definitively condemned with a conditional
fine and has been ordered to pay all expenses related to the legal
procedure. The Federal Court brings with this judgment, which
constitutes precedence, a lot of clarity and consequently a world
première regarding legal recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Perincek
had made appeal of its judgment on March 9, 2007.
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A1+
[07:55 pm] 19 December, 2007
At the end of a long fight, the Swiss-Armenian Association has learnt
with great satisfaction of the Federal Court's ruling published today
that the President of the Party of Turkish Workers, Dogu Perincek,
has been condemned as guilty of racial discrimination (article 261
bis of the Penal code).
Dogu Perincek had repeatedly asserted in 2005 that the genocide of
Armenians in 1915 - during which about 1.5 million Armenians were
killed - is an "international lie".
Dogu Perincek has been definitively condemned with a conditional
fine and has been ordered to pay all expenses related to the legal
procedure. The Federal Court brings with this judgment, which
constitutes precedence, a lot of clarity and consequently a world
première regarding legal recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Perincek
had made appeal of its judgment on March 9, 2007.
--Boundary_(ID_bzjXJB9a839WjQGueO9gpw)--