The European Court of Human Rights held that Turkey violated the right to respect for private life of two professors by failing to guarantee them protection against verbal attacks that constituted hate speech and incitement to violence. The professors were principal authors of a report on minority and cultural rights and had become the targets of a media and political campaign to discredit the two as traitors.
The European Court of Human Rights held that the Austrian courts had appropriately balanced the rights to freedom of religion and expression by convicting a woman for "disparaging religious doctrines" after she held a series of seminars in which she described prophet Muhammed as a paedophile.
The French Constitutional Council held that a provision that made it an offence to visit a website promoting terrorist ideology was an unjustifiable limitation to the right to freedom of expression.
The South African Constitutional Court held that a legislative provision that criminalized the failure to notify law enforcement of assemblies of more than fifteen people was an unjustifiable limitation on the right to freedom of assembly.
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.
