Freedom of speech

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Monitoring Center of Russia’s CCSHR to collect data on problems faced by media outlets

The standing commission on freedom of information and journalists’ rights at Russia’s Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights (CCSHR) is launching a monitoring center aimed to protect media outlets.

12:01 07.03.2019

Five Russians had their right to freedom of expression violated – ECHR

The European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday published its judgement in favor of five applicants from Russia claiming violation of their rights under several articles of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights (“the Convention”).

14:30 26.04.2016

ECHR holds France wrongly punished Sarkozy-satirizing socialist

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held Thursday that France violated Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights – which protects the Freedom of Expression – by convicting a man who had held up a satirical placard during a visit by then-president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008.

18:40 14.03.2013