Church of Scientology v Sweden: ECHR 5 May 1979

Article 9-1. A church, as such, is capable of exercising the rights contained in Article 9 (New jurisprudence).
The freedom to manifest religious belief in practice dows not confer protection on statements of purported religious belief which are nonetheless of a commercial nature. Dostinction between advertisements which are merely ‘informational’ and those of a commercial character.

Citations:

7805/77, [1979] ECHR 9

Links:

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Statutes:

European Convention on Human Rights

Human Rights, Media, Ecclesiastical

Updated: 24 July 2022; Ref: scu.341522