Russian newspaper backed by Court over reporting on Kursk submarine accident
By Emil Weber
Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and its reporter, Ms. Yelena Valeryevna Milashina, were backed on Tuesday by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) over their reporting on a fatal submarine accident which had left 118 persons on board dead.
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 was whether their reporting of a lawyer’s statements representing the family of a dead lieutenant amounted to defamation, as the domestic courts had decided. The ECtHR ruled that Russian courts had unjustifiably limited the right of freedom…
