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YEREVAN PLANS TO ENGAGE IN PERINCEK COURT CASE
Tuesday, July 15th, 2014
http://asbarez.com/124987/yerevan-plans-to-engage-in-perincek-court-case/
Armenia's Prosecutor General and Representative to the ECHR Gevorg
Kostanyan. (Photo: Photolure)
YEREVAN--The Government of the Republic of Armenia intends to engage
in the case of Turkish nationalist Dogu Perincek in the European
Court of Human Rights (ECHR) as a third party. During his interview
with Armenpress, the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia
and Representative of Armenia to the ECHR Gevorg Kostanyan said that
the decision has already been made and, by Aug. 26, Armenia will
officially apply to the ECHR to be engaged as a third party.
Kostanyan did not go into details about the actions that should be
carried out by the Armenian side, but stressed that they were seriously
determined, and that a group of advocates would most likely be formed
to achieve success.
Under the provisions of the Swiss law, in 2007, Turkish citizen
Perincek was convicted for denying the Armenian Genocide. Failing to
win two appeals against the judgment, Perincek appealed the ECHR,
which on Dec. 17 ruled that the Swiss courts' rulings violated the
appellant's right to freedom of expression.
The ECHR ruling in December stated that "the free exercise of the
right to openly discuss questions of a sensitive and controversial
nature is one of the fundamental aspects of freedom of expression
and distinguishes a tolerant and pluralistic democratic society from
a totalitarian or dictatorial regime."
The original case emerged from Perincek's participation in a number
of conferences in Switzerland in 2005, during which he publicly denied
that the Ottoman Empire had perpetrated the crime of genocide against
the Armenian people in 1915.
Tuesday, July 15th, 2014
http://asbarez.com/124987/yerevan-plans-to-engage-in-perincek-court-case/
Armenia's Prosecutor General and Representative to the ECHR Gevorg
Kostanyan. (Photo: Photolure)
YEREVAN--The Government of the Republic of Armenia intends to engage
in the case of Turkish nationalist Dogu Perincek in the European
Court of Human Rights (ECHR) as a third party. During his interview
with Armenpress, the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia
and Representative of Armenia to the ECHR Gevorg Kostanyan said that
the decision has already been made and, by Aug. 26, Armenia will
officially apply to the ECHR to be engaged as a third party.
Kostanyan did not go into details about the actions that should be
carried out by the Armenian side, but stressed that they were seriously
determined, and that a group of advocates would most likely be formed
to achieve success.
Under the provisions of the Swiss law, in 2007, Turkish citizen
Perincek was convicted for denying the Armenian Genocide. Failing to
win two appeals against the judgment, Perincek appealed the ECHR,
which on Dec. 17 ruled that the Swiss courts' rulings violated the
appellant's right to freedom of expression.
The ECHR ruling in December stated that "the free exercise of the
right to openly discuss questions of a sensitive and controversial
nature is one of the fundamental aspects of freedom of expression
and distinguishes a tolerant and pluralistic democratic society from
a totalitarian or dictatorial regime."
The original case emerged from Perincek's participation in a number
of conferences in Switzerland in 2005, during which he publicly denied
that the Ottoman Empire had perpetrated the crime of genocide against
the Armenian people in 1915.