JUDGMENT Chkhartishvili v. Georgia 11.05.2023 (app. no. 31349/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s arrest in 2019 at a demonstration for disobeying police orders to move off the road and throwing beans at the police, shouting that beans used to be “gruel for slaves”. The demonstration in Tbilisi was part of a series […]
JUDGMENT Demertzis v. Greece 11.05.2023 (app. no. 12766/15) see here SUMMARY Appearance of the applicant lawyer on a television show and his statements on a case of a family nature, which was pending before the civil courts. The show also featured the child’s mother, stepfather and a psychiatrist, and included video footage of the child. […]
JUDGMENT SAURE v. GERMANY (No. 2) 28.03.2023 (app. no. 6091/16) see here SUMMARY The applicant is a journalist with Bild, a daily newspaper with a large circulation. He asked for information held by the Ministry of Justice of the Land of Brandenburg concerning judges and a public prosecutor in the Land of Brandenburg who had previously worked for the Ministry […]
JUDGMENT MITICHYAN v. ARMENIA 21.03.2023 (app. no. 34787/12) see here SUMMARY Defamatory statements of the applicant to a journalist and publication in a local newspaper against a mayor, who had been criminally acquitted of the charges. Applicant’s conviction. Freedom of expression. In March 2010 criminal proceedings were instituted against the mayor of Lernapat village, V.Y., […]
JUDGMENT UDOVYCHENKO v. UKRAINE 23.03.2023 (app. no. 46396/14) see here SUMMARY Freedom of expression of an eyewitness. Obligation of the courts to give adequate reasons for decisions. The applicant was a witness of a road accident of public interest. While visiting the victim in hospital, the applicant gave a comment on the circumstances of the […]
JUDGMENT ERDÉLYI v. HUNGARY 09.03.2023 (app. no. 9720/17) see here SUMMARY Domestic authorities’ denial of a request made by the applicant to access and report on living conditions in reception centres for asylum-seekers. On 27 July 2016 the applicant lodged a request for authorisation from the Office of Immigration and Nationality to enter and make […]
JUDGMENT ALIYEV v. AZERBAIJAN of 02.02.2023 (app. no. 34717/10 and 8791/11) see here SUMMARY The applications concern two separate sets of proceedings resulting in two criminal convictions of the same applicant, a journalist who wrote under the pen name “Sardar Alibeyli”, on account of defamatory articles. At the material time the applicant was editor-in-chief of Nota, […]
JUDGMENT Svetova and others v. Russia 24.01.2023 (app. no. 54714/17) see here SUMMARY The five applicants complained about the unjustified search in their home. At 11 a.m. on 28 February 2017 the police arrived at the applicants’ apartment in Moscow to execute the warrant. According to the applicants, the officers did not introduce themselves and […]
JUDGMENT Isakov v. Russia 10.01.2023 (app. no. 21226/14) see here SUMMARY The applicant is a gay rights activist. On 30 June 2013 the applicant held a picket against homophobia in the centre of Kazan and he was arrested by the police. The judge found the applicant guilty of an administrative offence under Article 6.21 § […]
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The applicant’s conviction for not promptly deleting illegal comments on Facebook. No violation of freedom of expression was found
GRAND CHAMBER JUDGMENT Sanchez v. France 16.05.2023 (app. no. 45581/15) see here SUMMARY The application concerned the criminal conviction of the applicant, at the time a local councillor who was standing for election to Parliament, for the offence of incitement to hatred or violence against a group or an individual on grounds of religion, following […]