By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided on that the German courts were right to sanction a major publisher with 10,000 Euros non-pecuniary damages for defamation against a private person by claims in a book about the mafia.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
The crux of the matter, from a media ethics viewpoint, is that the top European human rights court now maintains that the media cannot rely solely on investigative authorities’ internal reports - in particular on crime issues - to publish…
