EUROPEAN ARMENIAN FEDERATION For Justice & Democracy
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PRESS RELEASE
TUESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2009
CONTACT : VARTéNIE ECHO
TEL. / FAX. : +32 (0) 2 732 70 27
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: A CONFERENCE TO STRUGGLE AGAINST GENOCIDE
DENIALS
THE CONFERENCE JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE EUROPEAN ARMENIAN
FEDERATION, IBUKA-FRANCE AND THE JEWISH LAIC COMMUNITY CENTRE COMES
WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE FUTURE PAN-EUROPEAN PENALISATION OF DENIAL.
The European Armenian Federation, the Jewish Laic Community Centre
and IBUKA-France have organised a conference on genocide denial which
will take place on Tuesday October 6 from 9.30am in the European
Parliament (Brussels).
This conference comes in the scope of the future Pan-European
penalisation of denial: a decision[1] [4] 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.
The European Armenian Federation will shortly communicate the final
program of this conference. The registration is free and mandatory for
participation. Applications must be registered here before September
28, 2009 [5].
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[1] [6] Framework Decision on combating certain forms of racism and
xenophobia adopted by the Justice and Home Affairs Council on the 28
November 2008
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