The High Court of South Africa granted a number of orders forbidding the Black First Land First organization from engaging in, among other things, acts of intimidation, harassment, and threats directed at certain journalists. The High Court also ordered that the organization not use social media in an intimidating and threatening way.
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled that a planned protest camp to be set up in a city park during the G20 Summit was a protected form of assembly, but that the City of Hamburg could include any restrictions necessary to protect the park from permanent damage.
The European Court of Human Rights found no violation of the right to freedom of expression where a journalist was fined 800 Swiss Francs for publishing an article about a confidential diplomatic strategy paper. The Court gave Switzerland a certain margin of appreciation in how to deal with preserving confidential or secret documents.
The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded to the District Court, finding that the First Amendment includes an express right to film the police, regardless of whether the act of filming is considered expressive conduct or not. But the Court also found that the police were entitled to qualified immunity because at the time the incident occurred this was not a clearly established right.
The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice found an order to block access to an entire music website indefinitely constituted an unnecessary, overbroad and disproportionate restriction on the right to freedom of expression.
The Supreme Court of India found Arundhati Roy, a political activist and Booker-prize winning author, guilty of contempt for alleging in an affidavit that the Supreme Court was muzzling dissent and criticism.
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