Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 03/12/2019

Subject: The judgment found the violation of the right to freedom of expression, owing to several prolonged criminal proceedings brought against the proprietor of a newspaper, subsequently acquitted, for having published anonymous statements of organisations characterised as terrorist under Turkish law, regardless of the actual content of the articles

Parties: Ali Gürbüz e altri c. Turchia

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 11 Freedom of expression - Justice - Art. 47 Reasonable delay