JUDGMENT Pendov v. Bulgaria 26.03.2020 (no. 44229/11) βsee here SUMMARY Seizure of server for 7.5 months from a person who was not indicted. Professional use for website. Right to property and freedom of expression. Restricted access to the applicant’s cultural web site on Japanese anime due to unnecessary and prolonged confiscation of his computer server […]
JUDGMENT Tête v. Frabce 26.03.2020 (no. 59636/16) see here SUMMARY In this case the applicant complained about his conviction for malicious falsehood on account of an open letter which he had written to the President of the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF), in which he accused the Olympique Lyonnais Group (“the OL Group”) and its […]
JUDGMENT Altıntaş v. Turkey 10.03.2020 (no. 50495/08) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a judicial fine imposed on Mr Altıntaş for an article published in 2007 in his periodical Tokat Demokrat, describing the perpetrators of the “Kızıldere events”, among others as “idols of the youth”. The events in question took place in March 1972, when […]
JUDGMENT Özer v. Turkey 11.02.2020 (no. 3) (no. 69270/12) see here SUMMARY The case concerned criminal proceedings brought against Mr Özer over an article published in his magazine. Mr Özer was prosecuted and convicted of the criminal offence of providing propaganda for a terrorist organisation, under section 7(2) of Law No. 3713. The Court reiterated […]
JUDGMENT Atamanchuk v. Russia 11.02.2020 (no. 4493/11) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a businessman’s conviction for inciting hatred and enmity following statements about non-Russians in an article published in a local newspaper. The Court found in particular that the applicant’s sweeping remarks had not contributed to any public debate and agreed with the national […]
JUDGMENT Magosso and Brindani v. Italy 16.01.2020 (no. 59347/11) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the conviction for defamation of two applicants, a journalist and a publishing director, following the publication of an article concerning the murder of the journalist Walter Tobagi in 1980 by a terrorist group close to the Red Brigades. With regard […]
JUDGMENT Magyar Kétfarkú Kutya Párt v. Hungary 20.01.2020 (no. 201/17) (GRAND CHAMBER) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a political party’s mobile application which allowed voters to photograph, anonymously upload and comment on invalid votes cast during a referendum on immigration in 2016. The Court found in particular that the provision of domestic election law […]
JUDGMENT Margulev v. Russia 08.10.2019 (no. 15449/09) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the head of a conservation NGO whose comments in a newspaper article were found to have defamed Moscow City Council. The Court first found that although the applicant was a third-party to the dispute rather than the direct object of the defamation […]
JUDGMENT Zarubin and others v. Lithuania 19-12-2019 (no. 69111/17, 69112/17, 69113/17 and 69114/17) see here SUMMARY Protection of the public interest and freedom of expression. Deportation from Lithuania and a ban on the re-entry of four Russian journalists working for the Russian state broadcaster after their actions at a conference in Vilnius. The Court was […]
JUDGMENT Man and others v. Romania 12.12.2019 (no.39273/07) see here SUMMARY The case originated in accusations against an investigative journalist, Liviu Aurel Man, and his team for operating a blackmailing network. The applicants, Mr Man, his wife and their media companies, brought multiple complaints under the Convention, essentially connected to the search-and-seizure operation at their […]
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