Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 11/10/2020

Subject: The judgment according to which amounts to the violation of the right to freedom of expression the conviction to a long detention of a journalist/publisher, which assimilates an article on freedom of the press to propaganda in favour of terrorist organizations; on the contrary, the exceptional delay of the Constitutional Court after the declaration of the state of urgency does not amount to violation of article 18 of the Convention

Parties: Sabuncu e altri c. Turchia

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 11 Freedom of expression