Religion – Weltanschauung – Recht [ RWR ]

In today’s Chamber judgment in the case of GRA Stiftung gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus v. Switzerland (application no. 18597/13) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case concerned a complaint by a non-governmental organisation that its right to freedom of expression had been infringed because the domestic courts had found that it had defamed a politician by classifying his remarks at a speech during a campaign ahead of a 2009 referendum on banning minarets in Switzerland as “verbal racism”. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen

The applicant, GRA Stiftung gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus (the GRA Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism), is a non-governmental organisation which is registered in Switzerland. It promotes tolerance and condemns racially motivated discrimination. The case concerns the organisation’s complaint about a court finding of defamation against it. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen