Gianna Iacino
On 17 January 2017, the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that, the right of access to information according to art. 10 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) does not include a general right of access to the internet (application no: 21575/08).
The plaintiff is a prisoner in an Lithuanian prison. He tried to get access to information on how to enroll at a university to study law with a specialization in Human Rights. He wrote to the Ministry of Education and Science, explaining that he was a prisoner and therefore, could not physically attend the place of…