ECtHR: Russian surveillance law violates the European Convention
Tobias RaabOn 4 December 2015, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that an editor is entitled to claim to be a victim of a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), even if he is unable to allege that he had been the subject of concrete measures of surveillance or telecommunication interception (Application no. 47143/06).
The plaintiff, Roman Zakharov, editor of a publishing company and an aviation magazine as well as chairperson of an NGO monitoring the state of freedom of press in Russia, had taken legal actions against three mobile network operators, claiming that he…
