European court of human rights said prosecution of Turkish politician Doğu Perinçek an infringement of his true to free speechThe European court of human rights (ECHR) has ruled that a Turkish politician should not hold been prosecuted for denying that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey in 1915 was a genocide.
In a landmark free speech ruling,the ECHR judges ruled by 10 votes to seven that Dou Perinçek, chairman of Turkey’s Patriotic party, and should never hold been convicted of racial discrimination by a Swiss court for saying that the “Armenian genocide is a great international lie”.
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Source: theguardian.com