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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.
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.