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19 March 2024

Business as usual: Amal Alamuddin Clooney back in court

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Human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney, arrives with her colleague Geoffrey Robertson to attend a hearing at the European court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. (Reuters)

Clooney and Robertson will represent Armenia during an hearing on the case of Dogu Perincek, Chairman of the Turkish Workers Party, against Switzerland. (Reuters)

Perincek was found guilty of racial discrimination by a Swiss Police Court for having publicly denied the characterisation of genocide, without calling into question the existence of massacres and deportations of Armenians in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, during various conferences in Switzerland in 2005. (Reuters)

Perincek claims that the Swiss courts breached his freedom of expression. (Reuters)

Amal Alamuddin Clooney with her colleague Geoffrey Robertson. (Reuters)

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Amal Clooney, a member of a legal team representing Armenia, enjoys a coffee during a break at the European Court of Human rights in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP)