France Plans to Enact Law Criminalizing Armenian Genocide Denial

June 21, 2016
President Serzh Sarkisian and French President François Hollande visit the Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan on May 12, 2014. (Photo: Photolur)

President Serzh Sarkisian and French President François Hollande visit the Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan on May 12, 2014. (Photo: Photolur)

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)””France plans to enact a new law that will make it a crime to publicly deny the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey, the French ambassador to Armenia, Jean-Francois Charpentier, said on Tuesday.

“The text is practically ready,”

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