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  • Valeska David

Insulting a politician right after her death: Does the ECHR protect the reputation of the deceased?

February 08, 2016

By Valeska David At the end of 2014, when deciding on the admissibility of a case brought by Stalin’s grandson, who sued a newspaper and the author of an article for defamation of his grandfather, the ECtHR stated that the heir of a deceased person could not claim a violation of the latter’s article 8’s […]