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Jan 28 2015
Amal Clooney Takes Up Europe Human Rights Case With Arguments Over
Armenian Genocide
January 28, 2015 09:20 AM EDT
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Lawyer Amal Clooney is going before Europe’s top human rights court to
argue against a man convicted for denying the 1915 Armenian genocide.
Clooney is arguing on an appeal before the Strasbourg-based European
Court of Human Rights, which ruled in favor of the man, Dogu Perincek,
in December 2013.
Perincek argued his right to free speech was violated when Swiss
courts convicted him of denying the genocide in 2005.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman
Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by
genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey,
however, denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has
been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and
unrest.
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