JUDGMENT Mestan v. Bulgaria 02.05.2023 (app. no. 24108/15) see here SUMMARY The applicant, of Turkish origin, resides in Bulgaria where he became a citizen. At a gathering of his party, attended by a majority of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria, he spoke for a few minutes in the Turkish language in violation of electoral law. […]
DECISION REGARDING INTERIM MEASURES Aleksey Navalnyy v. Russia 17.2.2021 Mr Navalnyy’s current application before the Court was lodged on 20 January 2021 under Article 34 of the European Convention on Human Rights. On the same date the applicant made a request to the Court under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court related to his […]
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Ιmrek v. Turkey 10.11.2020 (app. no. 45975/12)
Criminal conviction of a politician for participating in demonstrations and non-assistance of the police in the dissolution. Freedom of expression.
The applicant was convicted of propaganda in favor of a terrorist organization. The domestic courts based their conviction on his participation in two demonstrations and his lack of assistance to the police in dispersing the protesters. They considered that he did not have the appropriate reaction to the disputed actions of the protesters, that he only had to warn them, that he had not asked the government commissioner to end the demonstration and had not provided the necessary assistance to him and the police for this purpose.
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Politician fined in criminal proceedings for failing to act promptly by deleting comments from his public Facebook account inciting hatred: no violation of the Convention
JUDGMENT Sanchez v. France 02.0.2021 (app. no. 45581/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the criminal conviction of the applicant, at the time a local councillor who was standing for election to Parliament, for incitement to hatred or violence against a group of people or an individual on the grounds of their membership of a […]