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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Court confirms verdict against Perinçek - swissinfo

"Court confirms verdict against Perinçek
The Swiss Federal Court has confirmed the sentence given to a Turkish politician, Doğu Perinçek, for denying the 1915 Armenian massacre was genocide.

The district court in Lausanne originally found Perinçek guilty of racial discrimination in March and ordered him to pay a fine of SFr3,000 ($2,600) – a charge against which he appealed.

He was also handed a suspended fine of SFr9,000 and ordered to pay SFr1,000 to the Swiss-Armenian Association as a symbolic gesture"

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