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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 with a view to limiting public participation bring for democracy“.

This approach referred to an earlier comment by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe calling for urgent action against “Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation” (SLAPPs).

Especially in defamation cases the ECtHR has found violations [Read more…] 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 criminal proceedings against an artist’s satirical collage ‘insulting’ the Turkish Prime Minister violated his right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an earlier case (Tuşalp v. Turkey) about press articles criticising the then Prime Minister, Mr. Recep Tayyip [Read more…] about ECtHR: prosecution for satirical collage criticising Turkish prime minister violates freedom of expression

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