JUDGMENT Durukan and Birol v. Turkey 03.10.2023 (app. no. 14879/20 and 13440/21) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicants’ convictions and prison sentences, with the effects of the judgments being suspended (Article 231 of the Code of Criminal Procedure), on account of content they had shared on social media. The Court held that, in […]
JUDGMENT Doğudan v. Turkey 26.09.2023 (app. no. 12256/21) see here SUMMARY Conviction of the applicant for a post he had published on his Facebook account. In this post, he launched accusations against the President of the Union of Chambers and Stock Exchanges of Turkey, damaging his honor and reputation. He was accused of insult and […]
JUDGMENT Radio Broadcasting Company B92 AD v. Serbia (application no. 67369/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned civil proceedings brought against the applicant broadcasting company by a former assistant health minister for its reporting in 2011 that she had been suspected of abuse of office, amid an ongoing controversy over the procurement of swine flu […]
JUDGMENT Lenis v. Greece 31.08.2023 (app. no. 47833/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerned Mr Lenis’s posting of a homophobic article on his personal blog in December 2015, when the Greek Parliament had been about to debate proposed legislation introducing civil unions for same-sex couples, and his subsequent prosecution and sentencing for incitement to hatred […]
JUDGMENT Verzilov and others v. Russia 29.08.2023 (app. no. 25276/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the Pussy Riot punk band’s complaint that they had been attacked by Cossacks while performing a new song in Sochi during the 2014 Winter Olympics. They had been grabbed, pushed and pulled, lashed at with a whip and had […]
JUDGMENT Mestan v. Bulgaria 02.05.2023 (app. no. 24108/15) see here SUMMARY The applicant, of Turkish origin, resides in Bulgaria where he became a citizen. At a gathering of his party, attended by a majority of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria, he spoke for a few minutes in the Turkish language in violation of electoral law. […]
JUDGMENT Gaspari v. Armenia (no. 2) 11.07.2023(app. no. 67783/13) see here SUMMARY Freedom of expression. Criminal conviction for characterizations against the Chief of Police. The Chief of Police chose to drive his car through the gathering crowd of a demonstration, pushing a female protester and causing an angry reaction from the crowd. The appellant reacted […]
JUDGMENT Bryan and others v. Russia 27.06.2023 (app. no. 22515/14) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a protest in 2013 by 30 Greenpeace activists at the Russian offshore oil-drilling platform Prirazlomnaya. The protest had involved two of the activists climbing the Prirazlomnaya platform after launching dinghies from a vessel called the Arctic Sunrise, which had […]
JUDGMENT Sarısu Pehlivan v. Turkey 06.06.2023 (app. no. 63029/19) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a disciplinary penalty imposed by the Council of Judges and Prosecutors (CJP) on the applicant, a judge who at the relevant time was secretary-general of the judges’ trade union, following the publication of an interview she had given to a […]
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Disciplinary sanctions against a judge for criticizing judicial reforms! Violation of privacy and freedom of expression
JUDGMENT Tuleya v. Poland 06.07.2023 (app. no. 21181/19 and 51751/20) see here SUMMARY The case originated in the new disciplinary regime for judges in Poland. The applicant, Igor Tuleya, a well-known judge, complained about five sets of preliminary inquiries initiated against him in 2018 on suspicion of disciplinary misconduct. He notably complained that one of […]