Court backs prosecutor over interview alleging corruption
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg
By Emil Weber
A European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment has backed a former prosecutor on his comments made in the press alleging corruption in the court system, based on the right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. He had been convicted and fined in his native Bulgaria, but now the government must pay him back the 7,565 euros, with costs.
Slavcho Krastev Karzhev, a former district head prosecutor in Sofia, was interviewed by the daily "Trud" in 2006 about a commission investigating his…