* Guest post By Dirk Voorhoof, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University and Legal Human Academy
In Savva Terentyev v. Russia the ECtHR has applied a very high level of free speech-protection for aggressively insulting and hostile comments about police officers, published on a weblog. The ECtHR observes that some of the wording in the blog post was offensive, insulting and virulent, but it found that the (emotional and sarcastic) comments as a whole could not be seen as inciting to hatred or violence. In contrast with the findings [Read more…] about Savva Terentyev v. Russia: criminal conviction for inciting hatred against the police violated a blogger’s freedom of expression