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Doctor’s conviction for assisted suicide of patients because he published a suicide guide! No violation of the freedom of expression

Article 10
12/04/2022 18:59

JUDGMENT Lings v. Denmark 12.04.2022 (app. no. 15136/20) see here SUMMARY The applicant is a doctor and the founder of a pro-assisted-suicide organisation, Physicians in Favour of Euthanasia. The case concerned his conviction on two counts of assisted suicide, and one count of attempted assisted suicide. He asserted that he had just been disseminating information […]

Revocation of a television station license in order to protect pluralism. Freedom of expression and the right to property were not violated

1st P - Article 1
05/04/2022 19:19

JUDGMENT NIT S.R.L.v. the Republic of Moldova 05.04.2022 (app. no. 28470/12) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant company’s allegation that its television channel was shut down for being overly critical of the Government and, in particular, whether domestic law could impose an obligation of neutrality and impartiality in the news bulletins of television […]

The recognition by a Constitutional Court of a violation of the right to freedom of expression and the award of adequate compensation is an effective remedy

Article 10
25/03/2022 18:28

JUDGMENT Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. v. Turkey 24.03.2022 (app. no. 25479/19) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a request by the Telecommunications and Information Technology Directorate for the removal of certain pages from the applicant’s website and the subsequent order blocking access to the entire website as it was not technically feasible to block only certain […]

20 months prison sentence for protesting in court. Violation of the right to freedom of assembly

Article 10
19/03/2022 18:47

JUDGMENT Ekrem Can and others v. Turkey 08.03.2022 (app. no. 10613/10) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicants’ convictions for having staged a protest in a courthouse, during which they chanted slogans, displayed a banner, threw leaflets around, and locked themselves in one of its corridors, thereby leading to the cancellation of some of […]

A court decision ordered the media to withdraw articles against a state body. Violation of the right freedom of expression

Article 10
15/03/2022 19:05

JUDGMENT OOO Memo v. Russia 15.03.2022 (app. no. 2840/10) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a civil defamation suit brought by the Volgograd Region Authority against a media company which OOO Memo owned. The Court found in particular that although civil defamation proceedings were open to private or public companies to protect their reputation in […]

Interim measures against Russia by the ECHR not to interfere in the activity of the Russian media covering the war in Ukraine! Protection of the freedom of expression

ECHR Decisions
13/03/2022 18:24

INTERIM MEASURE JUDGMENT ANO RID Novaya Gazeta and others v. Russia 10.03.22 (app. no. 11884/22) SUMMARY The Court, in the interests of the parties and the proper conduct of the proceedings before it, and having regard to the exceptional context in which the request has been lodged, invited the Russian authorities, under Rule 39 of […]

Offensive and racist cartoon against the Jewish community. The criminal conviction did not violate the freedom of expression

Article 10
24/02/2022 21:00

JUDGMENT Alain Bonnet v. France 24.02.22 (app. no. 35364/10) see here SUMMARY Criminal conviction of the applicant Alain Bonnet, known as Alain Soral, by the French courts for the offence of proffering a public insult of a racial nature against an individual or group on account of their origin or of belonging to a given […]

Denial of access to classified presidential records for the sake of national security did not infringe on freedom of expression

Administrative
07/02/2022 07:30

JUDGMENT Šeks v. Croatia 03.02.2022 (app. no. 39325/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a retired politician’s complaint that his request for access to classified presidential records in order to carry out research for a book had been denied on national security grounds. The Court noted in particular that the President’s decision refusing to declassify […]

Condemnation for a banner with provocative political content. Right to protest. No violation of the freedom of expression

Article 10
03/02/2022 07:26

JUDGMENT Manannikov v. Russia 01.02.2022 (app. no. 9157/08) see here SUMMARY Banner against Putin in a political demonstration in favor of Putin. Imposition of a small fine of approximately 14 euros. Right to demonstrate but also to counter-demonstrate. Freedom of expression. The applicant, a human rights activist, participated in an official demonstration in support of […]

Conviction for spitting on a portrait of President Putin! Violation of freedom of expression

Article 10
19/01/2022 08:43

JUDGMENT Karuyev v. Russia 18.01.2022 (app. no. 4161/13) see here SUMMARY Spitting on a portrait of Russian President Putin. Criminal conviction. Freedom of expression. The applicant, a Russian national, took part in an event aimed at expressing hope for an end to the rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In particular, protesters placed a portrait […]

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