European Court of Human Rights : Rebechenko v. Russia

The European Court of Human Rights has delivered an interesting judgment on the freedom of expression of a blogger (see also Egill Einarsson v. Iceland (No. 2), IRIS 2018-9/2 en Savva Terentyev v. Russia, IRIS 2018-9/3). The ECtHR values the statements of the blogger as those of a “public watchdog”...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Voorhoof, Dirk
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: European Audiovisual Observatory 2019
Subjects:
Law and Political Science
Freedom of expression and information
defamation
blogger
internet
Savva
Iceland
Online Access:https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8617516
http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8617516
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8617516/file/8617517
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Summary:The European Court of Human Rights has delivered an interesting judgment on the freedom of expression of a blogger (see also Egill Einarsson v. Iceland (No. 2), IRIS 2018-9/2 en Savva Terentyev v. Russia, IRIS 2018-9/3). The ECtHR values the statements of the blogger as those of a “public watchdog” and finds that his conviction for defamation violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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