Het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens heeft een factsheet gepubliceerd met een handig overzicht van de EHRM rechtspraak over het brongeheim.
“The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly emphasised that Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights safeguards not only the substance and contents of information and ideas, but also the means of transmitting it. The press has been accorded the broadest scope of protection in the Court’s case law, including with regard to confidentiality of journalistic sources. “Protection of journalistic sources is one of the basic conditions for press freedom. … Without such protection, sources may be deterred from assisting the press in informing the public on matters of public interest. As a result the vital public-watchdog role of the press may be undermined, and the ability of the press to provide accurate and reliable information be adversely affected. … [A]n order of source disclosure … cannot be compatible with Article 10 of the Convention unless it is justified by an overriding requirement in the public interest.” (Goodwin v. the United Kingdom, judgment of 27 March 1996, § 39).
Het document bevat samenvattingen van en links naar de volgende jurisprudentie:
- Goodwin v. the United Kingdom
- Nordisk Film & TV A/S v. Denmark
- Voskuil v. the Netherlands
- Financial Times Ltd and Others v. the United Kingdom
- Sanoma Uitgevers B.V. v. the Netherlands
- Telegraaf Media Nederland Landelijke Media B.V. and Others v. the Netherlands
- Roemen and Schmitt v. Luxembourg
- Ernst and Others v. Belgium
- Tillack v. Belgium
- Martin and Others v. France
- Ressiot and Others v. France
- Saint-Paul Luxembourg S.A. v. Luxembourg
- Nagla v. Latvia
- Stichting Ostade Blade v. the Netherlands
- Görmüs and Others v. Turkey
Het EHRM wijst tenslotte op 1 aanhangige zaak: Ivashchenko v. Russia (application no. 61064/10).
