ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL CASE HEARD IN PARIS

A Paris court has started consideration of the suit Hay Dat (Armenian issue) Commission instituted in May 2003 against Quid encyclopedia and Robert Lafon Publishers that are indicted in «propaganda of denial of the Armenian Genocide,» reported the Yerkir newspaper. Several French and Armenian organizations – the Council of Armenian Organizations of France, Union of Jewish Students of France – have cast their support to the Hay Dat Committee. The ruling will be announced on July 6. The claim stems from an article in the Encyclopedia “Turkey, some issues, Armenia: Turkey’s stand over the Armenian Issue” that denies the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915. The plaintiff demands to correct the article containing denial of the Genocide.