Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 01/19/2017

Subject: The judgment according to which domestic courts violated the right to freedom of expression, by ordering two journalists to pay damages for describing in an article in the newspaper an actress, who had been appointed to the subsidies advisory board of the Ministry of Culture’s Theatre Department, as “completely unknown”

Parties: Kapsis e Danikas c. Grecia

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 11 Freedom of expression