* Guest post by prof. Dirk Voorhoof, Ghent University and Ronan Ó Fathaigh.
The European Court’s Fourth Section has held, by four votes to three, that a protestor’s conviction, including a suspended three-year prison sentence, for frying eggs over the flame of a war memorial, did not violate the protestor’s freedom of expression. The judgment in Sinkova v. Ukraine prompted a notable dissent, which highlighted “inconsistency” with the Court’s prior case law, and a disregard for the principle that criminal penalties [Read more…] about Conviction for performance-art protest at war memorial did not violate Article 10