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* This guest post was written by Dirk Voorhoof, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University and Legal Human Academy In its judgment of 15 March 2022 in the case of OOO Memo v. Russia, the ECtHR warned for “the risks that court proceedings instituted … Lees verder about Belgium: A model for the transposition of the EU anti-SLAPP Directive – Dirk Voorhoof
* This guest post was written by Ronan Ó Fathaigh, IVIR/Univ. Amsterdam and Dirk Voorhoof, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University and Legal Human Academy On 2 February 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) unanimously found that the … Lees verder about ECtHR: prosecution for satirical collage criticising Turkish prime minister violates freedom of expression
The fifth edition of the internationally renowned International Libel and Privacy Handbook has just been published by LexisNexis. Jens van den Brink and Emiel Jurjens wrote the chapter on libel and privacy law in The Netherlands. The Handbook … Lees verder about Jens van den Brink and Emiel Jurjens contribute to International Libel and Privacy Handbook
* This blog post was written by Ronan Ó Fathaigh, IVIR/Univ. Amsterdam and Dirk Voorhoof, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University and Legal Human Academy In the case of Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) … Lees verder about Studio Monitori and Others v. Georgia: access to public documents must be ‘instrumental’ for the right to freedom of expression
* This blog post was written by Ronan Ó Fathaigh, IVIR/Univ. Amsterdam and Dirk Voorhoof, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University and Legal Human Academy In Tagiyev and Huseynov v. Azerbaijan, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously held that … Lees verder about Journalist and editor’s conviction for incitement to religious hatred violated Article 10
* This blog post was written by Ronan Ó Fathaigh, IVIR/Univ. Amsterdam and Dirk Voorhoof, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University and Legal Human Academy In Szurovecz v. Hungary, the European Court of Human Rights has … Lees verder about Denying journalist access to asylum-seeker ‘reception centre’ in Hungary violated Article 10 ECHR
* This blog post was written by Ronan Ó Fathaigh, IVIR/Univ. Amsterdam and Dirk Voorhoof, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University and Legal Human Academy The European Court’s Second Section recently found that criminal proceedings against the owner … Lees verder about ECtHR engages in dangerous “triple pirouette” to find criminal prosecution for media coverage of PKK statements did not violate Article 10
A recent Tedx talk by artist Nadia Plesner, about the litigation back in 2011 against Louis Vuitton over her art (more here in Dutch, here in English) and artistic freedom versus intellectual property. We represented Nadia in The Netherlands. … Lees verder about Tedx talk Nadia Plesner on the Louis Vuitton litigation
* This blog post was written by Ronan Ó Fathaigh, IVIR/Univ. Amsterdam and Dirk Voorhoof, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University and Legal Human Academy On 15 January 2019, the European Court’s Second Section unanimously found that an … Lees verder about Activist’s conviction for hooliganism over ‘obscene’ protest violated Article 10 ECHR
* 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 … Lees verder about Savva Terentyev v. Russia: criminal conviction for inciting hatred against the police violated a blogger’s freedom of expression
