Ozgur Gundem v Turkey: ECHR 16 Mar 2000

Hudoc Judgment (Merits and just satisfaction) Violation of Art. 10; No violation of Art. 14; Struck out of the list in respect of the first applicant; Pecuniary damage – financial award; Non-pecuniary damage – financial award; Costs and expenses partial award – Convention proceedings
The Turkish Government were under a positive obligation to take investigative and protective measures where the ‘pro-PKK’ newspaper and its journalists and staff had been victim to a campaign of violence and intimidation. Effective exercise of article 10 freedom does not depend merely on the State’s duty not to interfere, but may require positive measures of protection, even in the sphere of relations between individuals.
23144/93, [2000] ECHR 104
Worldlii, Bailii
European Convention on Human Rights 10
Human Rights
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CitedAppleby and Others v The United Kingdom ECHR 6-May-2003
The claimants sought to demonstrate against a development in their home town. The respondents who owned the shopping mall which dominated the town centre, refused to allow them to demonstrate in the mall or to distribute protesting leaflets. The . .

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Updated: 28 August 2021; Ref: scu.165827