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Conviction for performance-art protest at war memorial did not violate Article 10

March 19, 2018

By Ronan Ó Fathaigh and Dirk Voorhoof The European Court’s Fourth Section has held, by four votes to three, that a protestor’s conviction, including a suspended three-year prison sentence, for frying eggs over the flame of a war memorial, did not violate the protestor’s freedom of expression. The judgment in Sinkova v. Ukraine prompted a […]