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AZG DAILY #237, 20-12-2008
| Genocides | Update: 2008-12-29 13:28:46 (GMT +04:00) |
DENIAL OF THE GENOCIDE IS A PUNISHABLE OFFENCE IN THE TERRITORY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Translated by L.H. Similar decision was made at the meeting of the EU member countries’ Ministers of Justice and Internal Affairs in November 2008. According to the CNNTurk, after the meeting of the Ministers the European Council made a decision to pass a bill criminalizing the denial of the fact of Genocide. The law will be put into circulation in the EU member countries in the course of two years. According to the law, everyone who publicly denies the fact of the Genocide and the crimes against the humanity will be sent to prison for 1-3 years. CNNTurk adds that the law imposes punishment on the denial of the genocides that were committed after 1938; it does not embrace the Armenian Genocide. | 
