JUDGMENT Freitas Rangel v. Portugal 11.01.2022 (app. no. 78873/13) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s conviction for statements made about the professional bodies for judges and for public prosecutors at a hearing of a parliamentary committee. In particular, he had linked the judiciary and the prosecution service to, among other things, interference in […]
JUDGMENT Lee v. the United Kingdom 06.01.2022 (app. no. 18860/19) see here SUMMARY Refusal to write on a cake a slogan in favor of same-sex marriage. Privacy, freedom of expression and non-discrimination. Invoking ECHR provisions explicitly or in substance in national courts. Inadmissible application. A bakery belonging to a Christian company refused the applicant to […]
JUDGMENT Banaszczyk v. Poland 21.12.2021 (app. no. 66299/10) see here SUMMARY Freedom of expression. Issues of public interest. Conviction of a journalist by a criminal court for his articles against a hospital and a doctor. The applicant journalist of a local newspaper, in an article he published, accused a well-known hospital doctor and criticized the […]
JUDGMENT Ilıcak v. Turkey 14.12.2021 (no. 2) (app. no. 1210/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the arrest and pre-trial detention of Nazlı Ilıcak following the attempted coup of 15 July 2016 in Turkey. Ms Ilıcak is a famous journalist who is known for her critical views on the policies of the current government. The […]
JUDGMENT Standard Verlagsgesellschaft mbH v. Austria 07.12.2021 (no. 3) (app. no. 39378/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned court orders for the applicant media company to reveal the sign-up information of registered users who had posted comments on its website, derStandard.at, the website of the newspaper Der Standard. This had followed comments allegedly linking politicians […]
JUDGMENT Genov and Sarbinska v. Bulgaria 30.11.2021 (app. no. 52358/15) see here SUMMARY Political protest by painting a monument with spray. Criminal conviction with a fine. Freedom of expression. The plaintiffs spray-painted a monument to the October Revolution as a sign of protest against the Government. Each of them was fined 767 euros. Their act […]
JUDGMENT Assotsiatsiya ΜΚΟ Golos and others v. Russia 16.11.2021 (app. no. 41055/12) see here SUMMARY Electoral process, political speech and freedom of expression. According to the ECtHR, when an NGO pays attention to matters of public interest, it acts as a “public guardian” of similar importance to the press and enjoys similar protection under the […]
JUDGMENT Biancardi v. Italy 25.11.2021 (app. no. 77419/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the “right to be forgotten”. The applicant, a former editor-in-chief of an online newspaper, was found liable in civil proceedings for having kept on his newspaper’s website an article reporting on a fight in a restaurant, giving details on the related […]
JUDGMENT Marinoni v. Italy 18.11.2021 (app. no. 27801/12) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a finding of civil liability against the author of a book on account of two sets of remarks deemed by the Italian courts to be defamatory. The book included a reconstruction of the events preceding the summary execution of 43 captured […]
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Criminal conviction for comments on facebook related to a coup that took place a year later! Violation of freedom of expression
JUDGMENT Yasin Özdemir v. Turkey 07.12.2021 (app. no. 14606/18) see here SUMMARY The plaintiff was a teacher, who was accused of “glorifying” crimes and criminals through comments he posted on social media in April 2015, in favor of the Gulen organization and its leader (Fethullah Gulen). This behavior led to his criminal conviction. The ECtHR […]