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Jan 30 2015
Armenian Genocide Denial: Amal Alamuddin Clooney Defends Armenia In
Top EU Human Rights Court [VIDEO]
Jan 30, 2015 01:53 PM EST |
By Victoria Guerra
Though she's mostly known for being the woman who married George
Clooney, Amal Alamuddin Clooney's one of the most recognized lawyers
in the human rights field, and she's now taken on the case of the
Armenian genocide denial in the Human Rights Court of the European
Union.
For a full century, the government of Turkey has created a defense
based on the Armenian genocide denial, tweaking the death toll for the
event and even refusing to call the murder of 1.5 million Armenians in
1915 a genocide; in a case that has reached the highest court of the
EU on the matter, Amal Alamuddin Clooney has stepped up in defense of
the Armenian people.
As Time Magazine reports, the current case regarding the Armenian
genocide denial saw its birth in a 2005 Swiss court room: a Turkish
politician named Dogu Perinçek, from the Turkish Workers' Party, was
convicted in Switzerland for racism, after having called the Armenian
genocide of 2015 an "international lie."
According to The Chicago Tribune, Perinçek's conviction was later
overturned, in 2013, when the European Court of Human Rights released
him saying that it was an issue of freedom of speech; last Thursday,
the acclaimed human rights lawyer said it was very hypocritical of the
Turkish government to put forward that defense, considering their
"disgraceful" record on the subject of freedom of expression.
As Today's Zaman reports, the Swiss government asked the Court to
reconsider in 2014; now, the case is up for appeal in the same
Strasbourg court.
Of course, the new Armenian genocide denial case has reached news
sites around the world for two different reasons: the fact that it's
an important case in human rights and freedom of expression ... and
that Amal Alamuddin Clooney, George Clooney's new wife, is the person
defending the Armenian people.
As Clooney was defending her point, she stated that the "most
important error" in the ruling that released Perinçek in 2013 was that
it put Armenia in a tough spot, as it "cast doubt on the reality of
the Armenian genocide."
The ultimate goal is that, eventually, the Turkish government will
stop the Armenian genocide denial.
http://www.foodworldnews.com/articles/14097/20150130/armenian-genocide-denial-amal-alamuddin-clooney-defends-armenia-in-top-eu-human-rights-court-video.htm
Jan 30 2015
Armenian Genocide Denial: Amal Alamuddin Clooney Defends Armenia In
Top EU Human Rights Court [VIDEO]
Jan 30, 2015 01:53 PM EST |
By Victoria Guerra
Though she's mostly known for being the woman who married George
Clooney, Amal Alamuddin Clooney's one of the most recognized lawyers
in the human rights field, and she's now taken on the case of the
Armenian genocide denial in the Human Rights Court of the European
Union.
For a full century, the government of Turkey has created a defense
based on the Armenian genocide denial, tweaking the death toll for the
event and even refusing to call the murder of 1.5 million Armenians in
1915 a genocide; in a case that has reached the highest court of the
EU on the matter, Amal Alamuddin Clooney has stepped up in defense of
the Armenian people.
As Time Magazine reports, the current case regarding the Armenian
genocide denial saw its birth in a 2005 Swiss court room: a Turkish
politician named Dogu Perinçek, from the Turkish Workers' Party, was
convicted in Switzerland for racism, after having called the Armenian
genocide of 2015 an "international lie."
According to The Chicago Tribune, Perinçek's conviction was later
overturned, in 2013, when the European Court of Human Rights released
him saying that it was an issue of freedom of speech; last Thursday,
the acclaimed human rights lawyer said it was very hypocritical of the
Turkish government to put forward that defense, considering their
"disgraceful" record on the subject of freedom of expression.
As Today's Zaman reports, the Swiss government asked the Court to
reconsider in 2014; now, the case is up for appeal in the same
Strasbourg court.
Of course, the new Armenian genocide denial case has reached news
sites around the world for two different reasons: the fact that it's
an important case in human rights and freedom of expression ... and
that Amal Alamuddin Clooney, George Clooney's new wife, is the person
defending the Armenian people.
As Clooney was defending her point, she stated that the "most
important error" in the ruling that released Perinçek in 2013 was that
it put Armenia in a tough spot, as it "cast doubt on the reality of
the Armenian genocide."
The ultimate goal is that, eventually, the Turkish government will
stop the Armenian genocide denial.
http://www.foodworldnews.com/articles/14097/20150130/armenian-genocide-denial-amal-alamuddin-clooney-defends-armenia-in-top-eu-human-rights-court-video.htm