Application Number 59405/00 European Court of Human Rights [Judgment delivered in French] In this case, a politician was charged for a pre-election speech he had made four years before the charge on the grounds that his comments made distinctions between religions, races and regions. The Court pointed out that imprisoning a politician would have a […]
Application Numbers 2668/07, 6102/08, 30079/08, 7072/09 et 7124/09 European Court of Human Rights [Judgment delivered in French] The applicant was a journalist (deceased) (of Armenian origin) who wrote of the obsession of Armenians to have the Armenian genocide recognized by Turkey. He was found guilty of denigrating ‘Turkishness.’ The ECtHR found that his articles did […]
Application Numbers 4149/04 & 41029/04 European Court of Human Rights The applicant, who is of Roma origin, argued that a book and two dictionaries that had received government funding included remarks and expressions that reflected anti-Roma sentiment. He considered that these statements constituted an attack on his Roma identity and filed a complaint claiming that […]
Application no: 23168/94 The applicant wrote an anthology of poems on the Kurdish rebellion. He was charged for disseminating propaganda against the individisibilty of the State and sentenced to prison and also received a fine. The ECtHR contextualized the poems in the sensitivity of the security situation in South-East Turkey but held that regardless of […]