By Asbarez | Monday, 14 July 2014
Armenia's Prosecutor General and Representative to the ECHR Gevorg Kostanyan. (Photo: Photolure)
Kostanyan did not go into details about the actions that should be carried out by the Armenian side, but stressed that they were seriously determined, and that a group of advocates would most likely be formed to achieve success.
Under the provisions of the Swiss law, in 2007, Turkish citizen Perinçek was convicted for denying the Armenian Genocide. Failing to win two appeals against the judgment, Perincek appealed the ECHR, which on Dec. 17 ruled that the Swiss courts’ rulings violated the appellant’s right to freedom of expression.
The ECHR ruling in December stated that “the free exercise of the right to openly discuss questions of a sensitive and controversial nature is one of the fundamental aspects of freedom of expression and distinguishes a tolerant and pluralistic democratic society from a totalitarian or dictatorial regime.”
The original case emerged from Perincek’s participation in a number of conferences in Switzerland in 2005, during which he publicly denied that the Ottoman Empire had perpetrated the crime of genocide against the Armenian people in 1915.
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