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Conviction of a journalist for publishing secret investigative information. No violation of the right of freedom of expression

Article 10
19/02/2021 08:39

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 […]

Dismissal of a hospital doctor, because he unsubstantiatedly sued the hospital and did not follow the internal procedure. Obligation to cross-check complaints. No violation of te right to freedom of expression

Article 10
17/02/2021 12:25

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 […]

The role of the editor-in-chief and his responsibility for the published articles. Temporary detention and conviction for publishing articles. Violation of the ECHR

Article 10
14/02/2021 18:48

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, […]

Prolonged detention of Turkish journalists for publications criticizing the political regime. Violation of rights to personal freedom and freedom of expression

Article 10
13/02/2021 10:30

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 […]

Journalist versus journalist! Conviction for compensation for posting articles with offensive comments. The style of the texts has the same protection as their content! Violation of freedom of expression

Article 10
12/02/2021 19:31

JUDGMENT Gheorghe–Florin Popescu v. Romania 12.01.2021 ( app. no. 79671/13) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the domestic authorities’ decision to order the applicant, a journalist, to pay damages for having published five blog posts criticising L.B., another journalist who was the editor-inchief of a newspaper in the Desteptarea media group and producer for a […]

The pre-trial detention of the singer and columnist Atilla Taş, on account of tweets and articles written by him, was unlawful and arbitrary

Article 10
10/02/2021 19:45

JUDGMENT Atilla Taş v. Turkey 19.01.2021 (app. no. 72/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the pre-trial detention of the singer and columnist Atilla Taş because of tweets he posted on his Twitter account and articles and columns he wrote in the daily newspaper Meydan, between 2011 and 2016, criticising government policies. Mr Taş was […]

Prohibition for a detained lawyer to visit websites on legal matters as well as that of the ECHR! Violation of the freedom to receive information and ideas

Article 10
09/02/2021 15:23

JUDGMENT Ramazan Demir v. Turkey 09.02.2021 (app. no. 68550/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the prison authorities’ refusal to grant a request for access to certain Internet sites, lodged by Mr Demir in the course of his pre-trial detention in Silivri Prison in 2016. Mr Demir, a lawyer, wished to access the Internet sites […]

Removing illegal recordings of a cosmetics businessman from a website did not violate the freedom of expression

Article 10
09/02/2021 13:16

JUDGMENT Société Editrice de Mediapart and others . France 14.01.2021 (app. no. 281/15 and no. 34445/15) see here SUMMARY The two cases concerned an order issued against Mediapart, a news website, its publishing editor and a journalist to remove from the news company’s website audio extracts and transcripts of illegal recordings made at the home […]

Erdogan portrayed as Bush’s dog in a collage at a public exhibition. Arrest, pre-trial detention and conviction of the artist! Violation of freedom of expression

Article 10
05/02/2021 08:56

JUDGMENT Dickinson v. Turkey 02.02.2021 (app. no. 25200/11) see here SUMMARY Collage exhibition in public places against Erdogan. Freedom of expression, political criticism and proportionality of intervention. The applicant, a British national who has been a professor at Istanbul University for more than 20 years, exhibited in a public event and in a courtroom a […]

Lack of impartiality of the court when in a trial for revealing state secrets 1/3 of the jurors were related to secret services!

Article 10
11/12/2020 18:20

JUDGMENT
Danilov v. Russia 01.12.2020 (app. no. 88/05)
Jurors, principle of impartiality and the right to examine witnesses.
A famous physicist was found guilty of treason for revealing state secrets. The applicant complained of jury bias and that his restrictions on the examination of witnesses meant that he did not have access to a fair trial.
The ECtHR found that bias issues were identified in the composition of the jury as 4 of the 12 jurors carried “state security clearance”. The national court should therefore have considered this issue in detail. The failure of the courts to do so violated the ECHR.

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