Armenian Genocide trends on Yahoo as Amal Clooney starts defense

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Genocide trended Wednesday, January 28 on Yahoo, thanks to Amal Clooney and Geoffrey Robertson, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) executive director said in his Twitter post.

The issue made it to the 9th spot among top 10 most popular searches on Yahoo.

Lawyer Amal Clooney went before Europe's top human rights court Wednesday to argue against a man convicted of denying the 1915 Armenian Genocide, the Associated Press reports.

Clooney is representing Armenia as part of an appeal before the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights, which ruled in favor of the man, Dogu Perincek, in December 2013.

Perincek believes his right to free speech was violated when Swiss courts convicted him of racism for denying the Genocide in 2005. He described the Genocide as "an international lie."

Clooney said the "most important error" of the court's 2013 ruling in favor of Perincek was that "it cast doubt on the reality of the Armenian Genocide."

The court said its decision would be made at a later date.