A web administrator was convicted of political satire. Satire is characterized by exaggeration and distortion of reality! Violation of freedom of expression
JUDGMENT Patrício Monteiro Telo de Abreu v. Portugal 07.06.2022 (app. no. 42713/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s conviction and his sentencing to payment of a fine and damages for aggravated defamation of a municipal councillor (Ms E.G.) on account of the publication on a blog administered by him of three cartoons drawn […]
Award of damages to a former prime minister for posting on Facebook comments about the corruption of another politician. Violation of the right to freedom of expression
JUDGMENT Ponta v. Romania 14.06.2022 (app. no. 44652/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned an award of damages against Mr Ponta, a former politician and Prime Minister, for posting comments directed at another person on his Facebook page, which the domestic courts found to be defamatory. The Court observed that the domestic courts had not […]