Amal Ramzi
Alamuddin, wife of prominent actor and human rights activist George Clooney,
will be one of the attorneys representing Armenia next month at the European
Court of Human Rights (ECHR), according to armenianweekly.com.
Mrs.
Clooney is a highly regarded attorney specializing in international law,
criminal law, human rights, and extradition. She will be a great asset to
Armenia's legal team in Strasbourg, in the appeal of Perincek vs. Switzerland
before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights on January 28,
the source reported.
On 9 March
2007, Turkish national Dogu Perincek was sentenced in Canton Vaud to both a
financial penalty and a criminal fine under Art. 261bis CC for denying the Armenian Genocide. The Cantonal Court
of Canton Vaud and the Federal Supreme Court both rejected appeals against the
judgment. In its ruling of 17 December 2013, the competent chamber of the European
Court of Human Rights determined that the Swiss courts' rulings violated the
appellant's right to freedom of expression. On March 17, 2014, Switzerland
decided to appeal the ruling to ECHR's 17-judge Grand Chamber, to defend the
integrity of its laws and the country's legal system.