CoE: Relevant, but not sufficient: Austria violates publisher’s rights
Gianna Iacino,
On 25 October 2016, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that the arguments of the Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, OGH) for the conviction of a publisher for identifying reporting, are relevant, but not sufficient (Appl. no. 60818/10). Therefore, the conviction of the publisher violates the freedom of expression according to art. 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
In 2006, the weekly news magazine Profil of the publisher Verlagsgruppe News GmbH published an article on the financial difficulties of the bank Hypo Alpe-Adria due to its huge speculative losses. The article mentioned the treasurer…