EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: A CONFERENCE TO STRUGGLE AGAINST GENOCIDE DENIALS

armradio.am
09.09.2009 10:45

The European Armenian Federation, the Jewish Laic Community Centre
and IBUKA-France have organised a conference on genocide denial which
will take place on October 6 in the European Parliament (Brussels).

This conference comes in the scope of the future Pan-European
penalisation of denial: a decision of the European Union which
enforces criminal prosecutions against deniers must be transposed
in the 27 Member States legislations before the end of 2010. The
conference entitled "Denial and Democracy in Europe" is placed under
the patronage of the European deputy Elmar Brok (German Conservative)
and aims at explaining to the European Union’s policy-makers how far
the denial constitutes a perversion of freedom of expression and a
threat for the bases of democratic societies.

Political officials, lawyers, historians and scholars in social
sciences – great figures in the fight against denial – will present
the common points between denials of the various genocides. They will
aim to convince the European leaders of the need for extending the
penal provisions against all cases of proven denials as allowed by
the European decision.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress