Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 11/04/2014

Subject: The decision on the sentence to defamation against a historian for having damaged the reputation of a well-known professor, to whom he had referred as an informant of the secret political police: Polish courts should not have applied stricter standards than for journalists.

Parties: Braun c. Polonia

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 11 Freedom of expression - Justice - Art. 49 Proportionality of penalties