SMAJIC v BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Application no. 48657/16 European Court of Human Rights The applicant had made statements on several online forums, describing military action to be taken against Serb villages and neighbourhoods. The European Court of Human Rights agreed with the national courts which imposed a one-year prison sentence, suspended for three years, finding that these statements were damaging to […]

KARATAS v. TURKEY

Application no: 23168/94 The applicant wrote an anthology of poems on the Kurdish rebellion. He was charged for disseminating propaganda against the individisibilty of the State and sentenced to prison and also received a fine. The ECtHR contextualized the poems in the sensitivity of the security situation in South-East Turkey but held that regardless of […]