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!
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 […]