{"id":138329,"date":"2015-04-10T12:03:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T09:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/strong-reaction-from-osce-to-greek-cypriots\/"},"modified":"2015-04-10T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T09:03:29","slug":"strong-reaction-from-osce-to-greek-cypriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/strong-reaction-from-osce-to-greek-cypriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong reaction from OSCE to Greek Cypriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovi\u0107 expressed concern that the draft law of punishment of those who deny the Armenian allegations regarding the events of 1915, is approved by the Parliament of South Cyprus Administration.The bill, adopted on 2 April, penalizes the denial or the gross degradation of war crimes recognized as such by the Parliament through a unanimous decision or a unanimous resolution.Those convicted face prison terms of up to five years and a \u20ac10,000 fine.\u201cWhile fully acknowledging the humanitarian intentions of this bill, I believe that this measure raises serious concerns about compliance with international freedom of expression standards,\u201d Mijatovi\u0107 said. \u201cThe authorities should have taken into consideration the right to openly discuss questions of a sensitive and controversial nature as one of the fundamental aspects of freedom of expression which distinguishes a tolerant and pluralistic democratic society from a repressive regime.\u201dMijatovi\u0107 said criminalizing debates on history, even including false and offensive statements, is not conducive to a better understanding among people, communities and authorities of OSCE participating States.Mijatovi\u0107 also said that prohibitions on particular statements related to the culture and history of different nations and regions would subordinate international free-speech standards to fragmented national strategies on the regulation of speech and expression and make worse the attempts to reconcile and ultimately seek justice for victims. Free speech and free\u00a0media are essential in this process, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovi\u0107 expressed concern that the draft law of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}