Court quashes Swiss conviction for genocide denial

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a Turkish politician should not have been prosecuted for denying that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey was a genocide. Judges ruled by 10 votes to seven that Dogu Perincek’s 2007 conviction for racial discrimination by a Swiss court infringed his right to free […]

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a Turkish politician should not have been prosecuted for denying that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey was a genocide.
Judges ruled by 10 votes to seven that Dogu Perincek’s 2007 conviction for racial discrimination by a Swiss court infringed his right to free speech.
Mr Perincek had said “the Armenian genocide is a big fat lie.” The ECHR ruled that Mr Perincek had not called for “hatred or intolerance”.