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Award of damages to a former prime minister for posting on Facebook comments about the corruption of another politician. Violation of the right to freedom of expression

Article 10
20/06/2022 06:24

JUDGMENT Ponta v. Romania 14.06.2022 (app. no. 44652/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned an award of damages against Mr Ponta, a former politician and Prime Minister, for posting comments directed at another person on his Facebook page, which the domestic courts found to be defamatory. The Court observed that the domestic courts had not […]

A web administrator was convicted of political satire. Satire is characterized by exaggeration and distortion of reality! Violation of freedom of expression

Article 10
15/06/2022 19:41

JUDGMENT Patrício Monteiro Telo de Abreu v. Portugal 07.06.2022 (app. no. 42713/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s conviction and his sentencing to payment of a fine and damages for aggravated defamation of a municipal councillor (Ms E.G.) on account of the publication on a blog administered by him of three cartoons drawn […]

Pre-trial detention for 13 months of a President of a human rights NGO, without reasonable suspicion of committing crimes! Violations of personal freedom and freedom of expression

Article 10
11/06/2022 18:38

JUDGMENT Taner Kılıç (no. 2) v. Turkey 31.05.2022 ( app. no. 208/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the initial and continued pre-trial detention of Mr Kılıç who, at the relevant time, was Chairperson of the Turkish branch of the NGO Amnesty International. Mr Kılıç was arrested in June 2017 on suspicion of belonging to […]

Dismissal of the trade union chair due to a letter she sent to state officials! In camera trial! Violation of the freedom of association and fair trial

Article 10
04/06/2022 17:53

JUDGMENT Straume v. Latvia 02.06.2022 (app. no. 59402/14) see here SUMMARY Ms Straume was an air-traffic controller and chair of her trade union. The case concerned her treatment by her employer and ultimately her firing for statements made regarding safety in a letter to the State officials overseeing her State-owned employer on behalf of the […]

Conviction of the editor-in-chief of a newspaper due to vulgar comments against a politician that had no real basis! No violation of the freedom of expression!

Article 10
24/05/2022 19:17

JUDGMENT Pretorian v. Romania 24.05.2022 (app. no. 45014/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a civil judgment against the applicant, editor-in-chief of a regional weekly newspaper, for publishing two articles in which he criticised a well-known local politician. Relying on Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights, the applicant alleged […]

The imposition of a fine on a lawyer for a joke in court! Violation of freedom of expression

Article 8
18/05/2022 06:39

JUDGMENT Simić v. Bosnia and Herzegovina 17.05.2022 (app. no. 39764/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a joke that the applicant, a lawyer, told in court to illustrate his criticism of the proceedings in which he was representing a client. As a result, he was fined for contempt of court. The Court found in particular […]

No violation of former President of Croatia’s rights in case against him for defamation of a lawyer

Article 10
10/05/2022 06:28

SUMMARY Mesić v. Croatia 05.05.2022 (app. no. 19362/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned civil proceedings for defamation in which the applicant – a former President of Croatia – had been ordered by the Croatian courts to pay the equivalent of 6,660 euros (EUR) to a specialist lawyer of Croatian origin practising in France, for […]

The imposition of fine to an activist protester constituted a disproportionate interference with the right to freedom of expression

Article 10
04/05/2022 06:37

JUDGMENT Bumbeș v. Romania 03.05.2022 (app. no. 18079/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the fining of Mr Bumbeș for taking part in a protest against proposed gold- and silver-mining activity in the Roșia Montană area. He along with three others had handcuffed themselves to one of the entrance barriers of the main Government building […]

Prohibition to a newspaper to publish a photo with the caption “convicted neo-Nazi” 20 years after his conviction! No violation of the right to freedom of expression

Article 10
27/04/2022 19:26

JUDGMENT Mediengruppe Österreich GmbH v. Austria 26.04.2022 (app. no. 37713/18) see here SUMMARY Judicial prohibition on publishing a photo after a period of 20 years from a conviction with an accompanying text. Freedom of expression. A court ruling banned the applicant newspaper Mediengruppe Österreich GmbH from publishing an accompanying caption with the caption “convicted neo-Nazi” […]

The Court against disciplinary proceedings of judges! Disciplinary penalties have a subversive effect and are aimed at the entire judiciary! Reprimand a judge for posting an article on Facebook! Violation of freedom of receiving and transmitting information!

Article 10
21/04/2022 19:21

JUDGMENT Kozan v. Turkey 01.03.2022 ( app. no. 16695/19) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a disciplinary sanction (reprimand) imposed on Mr Kozan, a serving judge, for having shared in May 2015, in a private Facebook group, a press article headed “Judicial rehabilitation for closing the 17 December investigation, dismissal for conducting the investigation”, without […]

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