Refuting the Genocide fact is crime

12/10/2006

Yesterday the Armenian parliament made amendments in the RA Criminal Code, according to which hereinafter refuting the fact of the Genocide is crime. The mentioned law writes that distributing materials via electronic or other means targeted to refuting the fact of the Genocide, against the human peace or security done on the basis of race, religious or other relative discrimination as described hereinafter, refuting other such crimes is a subject to financial penalty (the lowest wage multiplied to 100-300) or imprisonment up to four years.