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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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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European Audiovisual Observatory
2019
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Online Access: | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8617516 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8617516 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8617516/file/8617517 |
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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