The European Court of Human Rights found that the Russian Government violated journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s right to life by failing to attempt to identify the intellectual authors of her murder and to promptly and reasonably expedite the investigation.
The European Court of Human Rights found no violation of a Latvian bank chairman’s right to freedom of expression in a case where he was ordered to pay damages for overstepping the limits of acceptable criticism and thus defaming the former president of the bank.
The Italian Constitutional Court ruled that the Senate overstepped its authority in extending Parliamentary privilege to a Senator after he made allegedly racist and defamatory statements about a Minister.
The High Court in Nairobi held that a Kenyan NGO’s right of access to information had been violated by a state agency’s failure to provide it with details about a government advertising campaign and ordered the agency to disclose the information.
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.
