Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

France Working On Legal Instrument Condemning Genocide Denial

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • France Working On Legal Instrument Condemning Genocide Denial

    FRANCE WORKING ON LEGAL INSTRUMENT CONDEMNING GENOCIDE DENIAL

    February 3, 2014 - 16:41 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - French Minister of Justice confirmed that the
    country's government is working on a legal instrument condemning the
    denial of the Armenian Genocide.

    Ms Christiane Taubira made the statement at the January 29 annual
    dinner of the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of
    France (CCAF), marking the anniversary of France's recognition of
    the Armenian Genocide in 2001, a Paris-based journalist Jean Eckian
    told PanARMENIAN.Net

    CCAF also presented a series of events to be implemented in the
    framework of "Mission 2015" action, with ringing of church bells
    throughout France on April 24, 2015, among them.

    On January 23, 2012 the French Senate passed the bill making
    it a crime to deny the Armenian Genocide. The bill envisaged
    a 45,000 euro fine and a year in prison for anyone in France
    who denies this crime against humanity committed by the Ottoman
    Empire. However, the French Constitutional Council ruled the bill as
    anti-constitutional. In a statement the Council said the document
    represented an "unconstitutional breach of the practice of freedom
    of expression and communication

    Later, President Hollande pledged to redraft the law criminalizing
    the Armenian Genocide denial in France, stressing the need to ensure
    the legal framework to avoid censorship by the Constitutional Council.

Working...
X