N. Radhakrishnan v. Union of India
The Supreme Court dismissed a petition to ban a book finding that the language used in the book could not remotely be said to be obscene.
Savva Terentyev v. Russia
The European Court of Human Rights held that the imposition of a suspended sentence on an individual for criticizing police activities in an online post was a disproportionate interference with his right to freedom of expression that amounted to a misuse of laws regulating hate speech, and hence constituted a violation of the right to freedom of expression.
Gîrleanu v. Romania
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the arrest and fining of a journalist for sharing classified information with a small group of people was a disproportionate interference on the grounds that the information was of public interest and there was no evidence that the journalist’s disclosure was liable to damage national security.
Nélio Raul Brandão v. Juiz de Direito da 2ª Vara Cível da Comarca de Campo Grande
The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil suspended a lower court’s order for a journalist to take down his website pending a final decision on the journalist’s constitutional claim that the order violated freedom of expression.
An Initiative of Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence
and to advance understanding of the norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression.