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Turkish president signs amendment limiting controversial state slander law

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] Turkish President Abdullah Gul Wednesday signed an amendment into law restricting the controversial Article 301 [Amnesty backgrounder; JURIST news archive] of the country's penal code [text, in Turkish], which makes "insulting the Turkish identity" a crime. The amendment recharacterizes the crime of "insulting the Turkish identity" as insulting the "Turkish nation," reduces the maximum

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).

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