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Journalists are not released from their duty to comply with the law, solely on the basis that Article 10 of the Convention afforded them protection!

Article 10
21/05/2021 19:08

JUDGMENT Amaghlobeli and others v. Georgia 20.05.2021 (app. no. 41192/11) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the scope of journalistic freedom to engage in news-gathering activities in the customs-control zone of a border checkpoint. Two of the applicants had entered such a zone, had interviewed travellers and taken photographs, and had refused to leave when […]

Prohibition of dissemination of parliamentary investigation information on corruption! Violation of freedom of expression

Article 10
07/05/2021 19:35

JUDGMENT Akdeniz and others v. Turkey 04.05.2021 (app. no. 41139/15 and 41146/15) see here SUMMARY The concerned an interim injunction ordered by the domestic courts banning the dissemination and publication (on any medium) of information on a parliamentary inquiry into allegations of corruption against four former ministers, which had been instigated following an operation conducted […]

Criticism of Erdogan by a journalist that he is not bound by the Constitution and that he will destroy Turkey! 18 months in prison and sentenced to 10.5 years in prison! New sentence by the ECHR!

Article 10
19/04/2021 18:53

JUDGMENT Ahmet Hüsrev Altan v. Turkey 13.4.2021 (application no. 13252/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the pre-trial detention of the applicant, who is a well-known novelist and journalist, following his arrest on suspicion of membership of the Fetullahist Terrorist Organisation/Parallel State Structure. The events took place around the attempted coup d’état in July 2016 […]

Pre trial detention of a journalist for 13 months without any indications of belonging to a terrorist organization and attempting to overthrow the regime. Violation of freedom of expression and personal freedom

Article 10
14/04/2021 18:03

JUDGMENT Murat Aksoy v. Turkey 13.04.2021 (app. no. 80/17) see here SUMMARY A well-known journalist, critical of the government with rich activity in the print and electronic press, was arrested after the coup of July 15, 2016 in Turkey, and was temporarily detained for 13 months. Two criminal charges were brought against him for belonging […]

Unjustified access to a journalist’s telephone data and its geographical location for 16 months violated the protection of her journalistic sources.

Article 10
12/04/2021 19:15

JUDGMENT Sedletska v. Ukraine 01.04.2021 (app. no. 2634/18) see here SUMMARY Protection of journalistic sources and freedom of expression. The case concerned a court order accessing the data of the applicant’s mobile phone, as she worked as a journalist for the Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty radio station, by the prosecutor’s office, thus ensuring […]

Conviction of a journalist for publishing secret investigative information. No violation of the right of freedom of expression

Article 10
19/02/2021 08:39

JUDGMENT Sellami v. France 17.12.2020 (app. no. 61470/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the conviction of a journalist for using information obtained in breach of professional secrecy, following the publication of a composite image produced by the police in connection with an ongoing investigation. The Court saw no strong reason to question the assessment […]

The role of the editor-in-chief and his responsibility for the published articles. Temporary detention and conviction for publishing articles. Violation of the ECHR

Article 10
14/02/2021 18:48

JUDGMENT Mehdi Tanrikulu v. Turkey (no. 2) 19.01.2021 (app. no. 33374/10) see here SUMMARY Freedom of expression and the right to personal freedom of the journalist. The role of editor-in-chief in the newspaper and his responsibility for publishing articles written by other journalists. The applicant, editor-in-chief of a Kurdish-language newspaper published in Turkey, was indicted, […]

Journalist versus journalist! Conviction for compensation for posting articles with offensive comments. The style of the texts has the same protection as their content! Violation of freedom of expression

Article 10
12/02/2021 19:31

JUDGMENT Gheorghe–Florin Popescu v. Romania 12.01.2021 ( app. no. 79671/13) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the domestic authorities’ decision to order the applicant, a journalist, to pay damages for having published five blog posts criticising L.B., another journalist who was the editor-inchief of a newspaper in the Desteptarea media group and producer for a […]

The reputation of a senior naval officer has been tarnished by the release of classified judicial information that implicated him in the serious crime of overthrowing the government.

Article 8
10/02/2021 18:34

JUDGMENT Sağdıç v. Turkey 09.02.2021 (app. no. 9142/16) see here SUMMARY In this case the applicant alleged a breach of his right to protection of his reputation on account of a series of articles published in the daily newspapers Taraf and Yeni Şafak in November and December 2009, accusing him of involvement in an action […]

Removing illegal recordings of a cosmetics businessman from a website did not violate the freedom of expression

Article 10
09/02/2021 13:16

JUDGMENT Société Editrice de Mediapart and others . France 14.01.2021 (app. no. 281/15 and no. 34445/15) see here SUMMARY The two cases concerned an order issued against Mediapart, a news website, its publishing editor and a journalist to remove from the news company’s website audio extracts and transcripts of illegal recordings made at the home […]

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