Journalist wins damages after court rules customs officers were wrong to seize files
By Emil Weber
Russian customs officers violated a journalist’s right to a private life when they seized and copied files and photos from his laptop without sufficient justification, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided on 13 February 2018.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
The top human rights court ruled that Russian law and practice provides only limited safeguards in relation to the right of the executive to interfere in private life, namely the article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Journalist Yuriy Nikolayevich Ivashchenko,…
