{"id":151916,"date":"2011-12-29T12:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T08:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=151916"},"modified":"2011-12-29T12:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T08:05:26","slug":"bosnian-party-leader-to-propose-bill-criminalizing-denial-of-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/12\/29\/bosnian-party-leader-to-propose-bill-criminalizing-denial-of-armenian-genocide.html","title":{"rendered":"Bosnian Party Leader to Propose Bill Criminalizing Denial of Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik, who has staunchly denied the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, on Tuesday said he would seek to make denial of the Armenian Genocide illegal in Bosnia, AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, the Serb-run entity in Bosnia, said his party would &#8220;propose a law that would ban denial of the genocide committed against Armenians&#8221; in 1915, Fena news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to enter into the circle of civilized countries, European and others, who have denounced this genocide. We will submit the draft to the (central) parliament in the coming days,&#8221; Dodik said.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, the French National Assembly \u2014 the lower house of parliament \u2014 voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill criminalizing genocide denial, which will now be debated next year in the senate. The bill makes denial of the genocide a crime punishable by a one-year prison sentence and a fine of 45,000 euros.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik, who has staunchly denied the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, on Tuesday said&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10372,17184,16861,36388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}