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TURKISH HISTORIAN CAN BE ARRESTED FOR DENYING GENOCIDE
Pan Armenian News
04.05.2005 05:11
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ As it was reported earlier, Switzerland came to
decision on detainment of head of the Association of Turkish Historians
Yusuf Ghalachogly for public denial of the Armenian Genocide in the
Ottoman Empire at the beginning of last century. The legal proceedings
were initiated last spring when during a scientific conference
Ghachalogly questioned the fact of the Genocide and stated that the
"activity of the Swiss juridical bodies and the resolution of the
Belgian parliament mean that Europe judges not people but the Turkish
State." Meanwhile Swiss historian Andre Egne said that if Ghachalogly
fails to prove his statements he can be detained. To note, according
to Article 261.2 of the Swiss Criminal Code the person, who shows
disrespect for the fact of Genocide and for the victims of this crime
against humanity can be sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment and should
pay a penalty amounting in 5 thousand Swiss franks, IA Regnum reports.
Pan Armenian News
04.05.2005 05:11
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ As it was reported earlier, Switzerland came to
decision on detainment of head of the Association of Turkish Historians
Yusuf Ghalachogly for public denial of the Armenian Genocide in the
Ottoman Empire at the beginning of last century. The legal proceedings
were initiated last spring when during a scientific conference
Ghachalogly questioned the fact of the Genocide and stated that the
"activity of the Swiss juridical bodies and the resolution of the
Belgian parliament mean that Europe judges not people but the Turkish
State." Meanwhile Swiss historian Andre Egne said that if Ghachalogly
fails to prove his statements he can be detained. To note, according
to Article 261.2 of the Swiss Criminal Code the person, who shows
disrespect for the fact of Genocide and for the victims of this crime
against humanity can be sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment and should
pay a penalty amounting in 5 thousand Swiss franks, IA Regnum reports.