JUDGMENT Handzhiyski v. Bulgaria 6.3.2021 (app. no. 10783/14) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s placing of a Santa Claus hat and a sack on the statue of Dimitar Blagoev in the main square of Blagoevgrad on Christmas Day as a form of political protest. He was convicted and fined for minor hooliganism. The […]
JUDGMENT Dimitriou v. Greece 11.03.2021 (app. no. 62639/12) see here SUMMARY Greek courts award damages of 15,000 euros to a newspaper publisher for an impugned article against a former mayor. Violation of freedom of expression and adjudication by the ECtHR of 27,000 euros! The plaintiff, publisher of a local newspaper in Heraklion, Crete and shareholder […]
JUDGMENT Baldassi and others v. France 11.06.20 (app. no. 15271/16) see here SUMMARY Activists. Boycotting and freedom of expression. The cases concerned a complaint by activists in the Palestinian cause about their criminal conviction for incitement to economic discrimination, on account of their participation in actions aimed at boycotting products imported from Israel as part […]
GRAND CHAMBER DECISION Selahattin Demirtaş v. Turkey 22.12.2020 (no. 2) (app. no. 14305/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the arrest and pre-trial detention of Mr Selahattin Demirtaş, who at the time of the events was one of the co-chairs of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a left-wing pro-Kurdish political party. The Court found in […]
JUDGMENT Schweizerische Radio und Fernsehgesellschaft and publisuisse SA v. Switzerland 22.12.2020 (app. no. 41723/14) see here SUMMARY The two applicant companies in this case complained about the obligation imposed on them to run a commercial which, in their view, was damaging to their reputation. The first applicant company is a nation-wide public-service television and radio […]
JUDGMENT Sellami v. France 17.12.2020 (app. no. 61470/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the conviction of a journalist for using information obtained in breach of professional secrecy, following the publication of a composite image produced by the police in connection with an ongoing investigation. The Court saw no strong reason to question the assessment […]
JUDGMENT Gawlik v. Liechtenstein 16.02.2021 (αριθ. προσφ. 23922/19) see here SUMMARY Complaints about euthanasia by a doctor and freedom of expression. A lawsuit against a hospital without a cross of complaints and without following the internal complaint procedure. Dismissal of the plaintiff without warning. The case concerned a doctor who raised suspicions that euthanasia had […]
JUDGMENT Mehdi Tanrikulu v. Turkey (no. 2) 19.01.2021 (app. no. 33374/10) see here SUMMARY Freedom of expression and the right to personal freedom of the journalist. The role of editor-in-chief in the newspaper and his responsibility for publishing articles written by other journalists. The applicant, editor-in-chief of a Kurdish-language newspaper published in Turkey, was indicted, […]
JUDGMENT Sabuncu and others v. Turkey 10.11.2020 (app. no. 23199/17) see here SUMMARY Right to freedom and security and right to freedom of expression. The 10 applicants, journalists of a well-known newspaper published in Turkey, were accused of propaganda in favor of a terrorist organization. In particular, they were prosecuted on the grounds that the […]
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The criminal conviction of a CEO of a company for comments about unprofessional behavior of a lawyer, violated the freedom of expression!
JUDGMENT Matalas v. Greece 25.03.2021 (app. no. 1864/18) see here SUMMARY Criminal liability of a managing director of a Greek public limited company for defamation for comments he had made in his capacity regarding a former legal adviser of the company regarding her work. Freedom of expression. In particular, he sent her an official document […]