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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LAW DELAYED IN FRANCE
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Jan 31 2012
Much to the delight of Ankara, some French lawmakers have gathered
enough signatures to spark a constitutional court review of the law
passed last week by the French Senate that would make a crime denial
of the killing of some 1.5 million Armenians during World War I as
genocide. More:
The court is expected to make its decision within a month. If it
finds the law unconstitutional, the legislation will be rejected.
Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, welcomed the
development.
The bill, which the French Senate approved last week, makes it a
crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Turks nearly
100 years ago were genocide.
Under the bill, anyone who says the killings of Armenians by Ottoman
Turks is not genocide faces a $60,000 fine and up to one year in jail.
France has already recognized the events as genocide, but this adds
criminal penalties to denial. The United States is among the countries
where genocide recognition has not passed its Congress.
From: Baghdasarian
About - News & Issues
http://worldnews.about.com/b/2012/01/31/armenian-genocide-law-delayed-in-france.htm
Jan 31 2012
Much to the delight of Ankara, some French lawmakers have gathered
enough signatures to spark a constitutional court review of the law
passed last week by the French Senate that would make a crime denial
of the killing of some 1.5 million Armenians during World War I as
genocide. More:
The court is expected to make its decision within a month. If it
finds the law unconstitutional, the legislation will be rejected.
Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, welcomed the
development.
The bill, which the French Senate approved last week, makes it a
crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Turks nearly
100 years ago were genocide.
Under the bill, anyone who says the killings of Armenians by Ottoman
Turks is not genocide faces a $60,000 fine and up to one year in jail.
France has already recognized the events as genocide, but this adds
criminal penalties to denial. The United States is among the countries
where genocide recognition has not passed its Congress.
From: Baghdasarian