ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL CASE HEARD IN PARIS

Pan Armenian News
30.06.2005 06:40

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A Paris court has started consideration of the suit
Hay Dat (Armenian issue) Commission instituted in May 2003 against
Quid encyclopedia and Robert Lafon Publishers that are indicted in
“propaganda of denial of the Armenian Genocide,” reported the Yerkir
newspaper. Several French and Armenian organizations – the Council
of Armenian Organizations of France, Union of Jewish Students of
France – have cast their support to the Hay Dat Committee. The ruling
will be announced on July 6. The claim stems from an article in the
Encyclopedia “Turkey, some issues, Armenia: Turkey’s stand over the
Armenian Issue” that denies the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in
1915. The plaintiff demands to correct the article containing denial
of the Genocide.