Albanian journalists win test case against SLAPP lawsuit
by Emil Weber
Two award-winning Albanian journalists have won a long-running defamation case that sets an important precedent for press freedom.
The Court was clearer and firmer than it had ever been before on the status of the right to access information as part of the right to freedom of expression guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention, it stopped short of acknowledging access to information as a fully-fledged right under the provision.
Besar Likmeta and Aleksandra Bogdani defended their reports about the wealth statements and the termination of an official investigation against a judge, Gjoni Gjin and his wife Elona…