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French MPs vote to make it a crime to deny that a genocide took place in Armenia in 1915, provoking anger in Turkey and raising doubts about freedom of speech
"I DON'T like what you say, and I will jail you for saying it". That inversion of the definition of free speech commonly attributed to Voltaire sounds so unappetising that it is hard to see why anyone should support it. But that is just what is happening. The lower house of the French parliament voted on Thursday October 12th to make it a criminal offence to deny what is commonly called the "Armenian genocide" of 1915.
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