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Fund Would Pay Fines for those in France Denying Armenian Genocide

Issue 10, Spring 2012
A wealthy French businessman, Rachid Nekkaz, has set up a €1 million Euro fund to pay the fine of anyone convicted in France for denying that the killing of Armenians by Turks almost a century ago was a genocide.  The same Nekkaz previously offered to pay the fines of Muslim women penalized for wearing a full-face veil.

Source: International Herald Tribune (January 4, 2012).  Fund would pay fines for those denying Armenian genocide. 
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