via Dzovinar Melkonian Turkish nationalist Dogu Perinçek sentenced in Switzerland has called the idea of an Armenian genocide international lie has succeeded in Strasbourg in December, in the name of freedom of expression. Switzerland has decided to appeal to the Grand Chamber. Valérie de Graffenried (Time) The right to debate Highly anticipated, the Swiss position must fall before March 17, the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) is to communicate: Switzerland will appeal against the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Genocide Armenian. The European Convention on Human Rights provides the opportunity to review a case by the Grand Chamber, particularly if the case raises a serious question affecting the interpretation or application of the Convention. In this case, it is primarily to clarify the flexibility available to the Swiss authorities in the application of the anti-racist norm enshrined in art. 261 bis of the Penal Code, in force since 1 January 1995, says the FOJ on its website. Switzerland had created this standard to fill a gap in the criminal law in order to accede to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The case caused a stir since Dogu Perinçek has succeeded in Strasbourg on 17 December. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland had violated the right to freedom of expression of the Turkish nationalist in condemning racial discrimination. Chairman of the Workers Party of Turkey Dogu Perinçek had publicly denied the existence of the Armenian genocide. In March 2007, he was sentenced by the Tribunal de police de Lausanne 90 days suspended fines for racial discrimination and 3,000 francs fine, later confirmed by the Federal Court verdict. Gold Strasbourg, he did not commit an abuse of right in calling international lie the idea of an Armenian genocide. The Court noted that the free exercise of the right to openly discuss sensitive and potentially unpopular issues is one of the fundamental aspects of freedom of expression, a right which distinguishes a democratic, tolerant and pluralistic society of a totalitarian or dictatorial regime. No precision against the legal characterization of the Armenian Genocide. The Court also noted that Dogu Perinçek had been acquitted by the Court of Berne-Laupen. If won victory, it will not, however, 20 000 euros for pecuniary damage and EUR 100 000 for the non-pecuniary harm required. From that date, Switzerland has three months to appeal to the Grand Chamber. Difficult to make because of differences of opinion between the Federal Department of Justice and Police and the Foreign business decision. Armenian associations Switzerland are highly mobilized, including booking with The International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, a full-page advertisement in newspapers, including Le Temps. A petition that has more than 10,000 signatures was also sent to the Minister of Justice and Police Simonetta Sommaruga, for Switzerland do call. For Switzerland-Armenia Association outraged by the decision of Strasbourg, the court would have committed the same historical and conceptual inaccuracies in its verdict. The association calls the evidence of the genocide of Armenians irrefutable. Only twenty of the 190 States that the international community has recognized the Armenian genocide to describe the massacres that occurred in 1915. Article in Le Temps
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