ECHR Holds Hearing on Genocide Denial

03.02.2015

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held a Grand Chamber hearing on Jan. 28, in the case of Dogu Perincek. The case stems from a Swiss court verdict that in 2007 fined Perincek, a Turkish activist and chairman of the Turkey’s Workers’ Party, over his 2005 statement calling the Armenian Genocide an “international lie"