The Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Court in India sentenced nine people to life imprisonment and hefty fines for conspiring to murder senior journalist Jyoti Kumar Dey. The Court had to decide whether it was proved beyond reasonable doubt that the accused persons acted in concert to assassinate Mr. Dey.
The European Court of Human Rights held that a columnist’s freedom of expression was violated because he was found liable for defamation and fined for writing an article questioning the relationship between a politician and the police. The domestic courts determined that Mr. Falzon had failed to sufficiently prove the allegations he had made against the politician in his article. The European Court of Human Rights disagreed with the approach adopted by the national courts, particularly in relation to whether some of Mr. Falzon’s statements were fact or opinion.
The European Court of Human Rights found that French courts had not violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights by sanctioning a journalist, the editor-in-chief, and operating company of the Le Point magazine for extensively publishing criminal procedural documents before they were read in open court.
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and to advance understanding of the norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression.
