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Conviction of journalist for reporting about sex abuses in a Christian rehabilitation centre violated Article 10 ECHR

November 12, 2014

By Flutura Kusari * and Dirk Voorhoof ** In Erla Hlynsdottir v. Iceland (no. 2), an Icelandic journalist had been convicted for defamation after reporting that the director of a Christian rehabilitation centre and his wife had been involved in sex games with patients of the centre. The European Court of Human Rights found a […]