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Greek Parliament Approves Hate Crime Bill: Stiffer Penalties for Genocide Denial

The Greek parliament yesterday passed a controversial hate crimes bill that increases penalties for racially motivated crimes and criminalizes the denial of genocide and war crimes.

As reported by the World Street Journal, the bill was two years in the making and aims to overhaul Greece’s outdated anti-racism law dating to the 1970s.

The new law poses fines and increases jail terms of up to three years for those committing attacks based on ethnic origin or sexual orientation.

There are also stiffer penalties for those who extol historical acts of genocide, such as the Holocaust or, for the first time, the mass killings of Armenians, Black Sea Greeks or other Christians in Asia Minor during the waning days of the Ottoman Empire.

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