Conviction of a journalist for an article that called a judge a “petty tyrant”! The phrase was a value judgment. Violation of freedom of expression.
JUDGMENT Ekayev v. Russia 10.01.2023 (app. no. 29396/15) see here SUMMARY The applicant is a journalist, a lawyer and a human rights defender. He founded the newspaper Tverskoy Reporter and published several articles revealing allegedly unlawful activities of the judges of the Tver Regional Court, such as corruption. In October 2011 the applicant published an article […]