Freedom of expression

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 […]

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Removal of a journalist from a polling station for videotaping the election process! Violation of freedom of expression

JUDGMENT Kuzmin v. Russia 10.01.2023 (app. no. 33513/13) see here  SUMMARY The applicant was commissioned to photograph and film the 2012 presidential election in Pushkido, Moscow Oblast. On 4 March 2012, the applicant arrived at polling station 2314 in Pushkino and began filming from the entrance. The head of the precinct electoral commission (“PEC”) ordered […]

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Sentenced to a fine for derogatory and offensive comments of a journalist against Muslims. Freedom of expression was not violated

JUDGMENT Zemmour v. France 20.12.2022 (app. no. 63539/19) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s conviction and sentencing for the offence of inciting discrimination and religious hatred against the French Muslim community for statements made on a television show in 2016. He alleged a violation of his right to freedom of expression. The Court […]

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Inclusion of the applicant’s name on an internal list of teachers deemed unfit for appointment to public schools due to doubts as to their loyalty to the Constitution. No violation of Article 10 of the ECHR

JUDGMENT Godenau v. Germany 29.11.2022 (app. no. 80450/17) see here SUMMARY The applicant, Ingeborg Godenau, is a German national who was born in 1954 and lives in Gilserberg (Germany). She was a secondary school teacher in the federal state of Hesse until 2006, when she was fired due to serious doubts about her loyalty to […]

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Court decision to withdraw a statement that constituted a statement of facts regarding tax evasion by a public figure. Violation of freedom of expression

JUDGMENT Marcinkevičius v. Lithuania 15.11.2022 (app. no. 24919/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a court order issued to Mr Marcinkevičius to withdraw a statement – which the courts had found to constitute a statement of fact and to be defamatory – given in an interview to Delfi, a news website, about a co-founder of Vilniaus […]

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Authorities’ refusal to allow journalist physical access to the Foreign Intelligence Service records did not violate his freedom of expression

JUDGMENT  Saure v. Germany 8.11.2022 (app. no. 8819/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerns the refusal to allow Mr Saure, a journalist, to have physical access to the files held by the German Foreign Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst) on U.B., a former Prime Minister of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein who had died in a hotel in […]

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Criminal conviction of an activist who made a topless protest against abortions in a church! Violation of freedom of expression

JUDGMENT Bouton v. France  13.10.2022 (app. no. 22636/19) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the criminal conviction of the applicant, a feminist activist who at the time was a member of Femen, for acts of “sexual exposure” (exhibition sexuelle) committed in a church (La Madeleine) in Paris during a “performance” by way of protest against […]

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