A Paraguayan Court sentenced Vilmar Acosta, former mayor of the city of Ypehú, to 39 years in prison for ordering the assassination of journalist Pablo Medina who had published investigations into Acosta’s role in drug trafficking.
The court of first instance in Syracuse sentenced a mafia member to a two-year-and-eight-month imprisonment related to death threats made against investigative journalist Paolo Borrometi.
The European Court of Human Rights found that the detention and conviction of three members of the punk band “Pussy Riot” for a controversial public performance in a cathedral, as well as the banning of the distribution of videos of their performances on the internet, amounted to a violation of the right to freedom of expression.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the public's right to freedom of expression outweighed the right to privacy of two German individuals who had sought the anonymization of personal information contained in media reports of the individuals' criminal convictions.
The First Chamber of the Spanish Constitutional Court held that preventing the indexing of individuals' personal data relating to a past criminal conviction from the internal search engine on a newspaper's digital archive was necessary for the protection of their rights. However, the Court found that anonymizing the names from the original articles themselves would be a disproportionate interference with the right to access 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.
