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The authorities’ refusal to disclose information to a journalist on a matter of public interest violated freedom of expression.

ECHR Decisions
07/04/2024 18:47

JUDGMENT Zöldi v. Hungary 04.04.2024 (app. no. 49049/18) see here SUMMARY Rejection of an investigative journalist’s request for information on the identity of the grant recipients of two foundations created by the National Bank of Hungary. The applicant sought judicial review of the decisions refusing to disclose the information she requested, but all domestic decisions […]

Refusal of the authorities to provide information on the work of the current Judges. Violation of freedom of expression

Administrative
30/03/2023 08:34

JUDGMENT SAURE v. GERMANY (No. 2) 28.03.2023 (app. no. 6091/16) see here SUMMARY The applicant is a journalist with Bild, a daily newspaper with a large circulation. He asked for information held by the Ministry of Justice of the Land of Brandenburg concerning judges and a public prosecutor in the Land of Brandenburg who had previously worked for the Ministry […]

Conviction for defamatory statements in a newspaper against a mayor! Violation of freedom of expression

Article 10
27/03/2023 14:02

JUDGMENT MITICHYAN v. ARMENIA 21.03.2023 (app. no. 34787/12) see here SUMMARY Defamatory statements of the applicant to a journalist and publication in a local newspaper against a mayor, who had been criminally acquitted of the charges. Applicant’s conviction. Freedom of expression. In March 2010 criminal proceedings were instituted against the mayor of Lernapat village, V.Y., […]

A charge with a large compensation on an eyewitness of a traffic accident for the statements he made to a journalist! Violation of freedom of expression

Article 10
27/03/2023 08:26

JUDGMENT UDOVYCHENKO v. UKRAINE 23.03.2023 (app. no. 46396/14) see here SUMMARY Freedom of expression of an eyewitness. Obligation of the courts to give adequate reasons for decisions. The applicant was a witness of a road accident of public interest. While visiting the victim in hospital, the applicant gave a comment on the circumstances of the […]

denial of a journalist’ s request to access and report on living conditions in reception centres for asylum-seekers. Violation of freedom of expression

Article 10
17/03/2023 20:46

JUDGMENT ERDÉLYI v. HUNGARY 09.03.2023 (app. no. 9720/17) see here SUMMARY Domestic authorities’ denial of a request made by the applicant to access and report on living conditions in reception centres for asylum-seekers. On 27 July 2016 the applicant lodged a request for authorisation from the Office of Immigration and Nationality to enter and make […]

Two prison sentences of a journalist for defamatory articles. Disproportionate sanctions. Violation of freedom of expression

Article 10
02/02/2023 17:23

JUDGMENT ALIYEV v. AZERBAIJAN of 02.02.2023 (app. no. 34717/10 and 8791/11) see here SUMMARY The applications concern two separate sets of proceedings resulting in two criminal convictions of the same applicant, a journalist who wrote under the pen name “Sardar Alibeyli”, on account of defamatory articles. At the material time the applicant was editor-in-chief of Nota, […]

Unjustified search of a home and seizure of personal belongings. Violation of respect for home

Article 10
24/01/2023 16:09

JUDGMENT Svetova and others v. Russia 24.01.2023 (app. no. 54714/17) see here SUMMARY The five applicants complained about the unjustified search in their home. At 11 a.m. on 28 February 2017 the police arrived at the applicants’ apartment in Moscow to execute the warrant. According to the applicants, the officers did not introduce themselves and […]

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.

Article 10
16/01/2023 09:07

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 […]

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

Article 10
12/01/2023 09:05

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 […]

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

Article 10
31/12/2022 17:53

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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