european court of human rights echr decision on the armenian event this must be added to the article on december the case perin ek v switzerland application no european court of human rights echr punished switzerland for criminally convicting mr perin ek for publicly challenging the existence of the armenian genocide perin ek said armenian genocide is an international lie echr punished switzerland for violating perin ek's right of freedom of expression article echr referenced three decisions on its verdict a in november the spanish constitutional court had found unconstitutional the offence of negation and had taken the view that the mere negation of a crime of genocide did not constitute direct incitement to violence b in february the french constitutional council had declared unconstitutional a law which made it a criminal offence to deny the existence of the genocides recognised by the law finding it to be incompatible with freedom of expression and freedom of research c the united nations human rights committee had expressed its conviction that l aws that penalize d the expression of opinions about historical facts were incompatible with the obligations that the covenant on civil and political rights impose d on states parties and that the covenant did not permit general prohibition of expressions of an erroneous opinion or an incorrect interpretation of past events echr echr punished switzerland for criminally convicting mr perin ek for publicly challenging the existence of the armenian genocide perin ek said armenian genocide is an international lie i hope now that the researchers can freely and without any fear research what happened in notice that in all ottoman empire archieves are open to the researchers and any researcher can freely read all the archieves and documents in turkey however armenia still does not allow its archieves to be searched and reserached references