Six applications in four years for violation of freedom of expression

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PODGORICA, 01.10.2020. – Between 2016 and 2020, 6 applications were filed against Montenegro before the European Court of Human Rights for violating freedom of expression.

Judging by the reports of the Office of the Representative of Montenegro before the court in Strasbourg, one petition was filed in 2016 and 2019, and two both in 2017 and 2018.

The statistics of this court show that Montenegro violated this fundamental right on two occasions so far.

Decision in the the case of Šabanović v. Montenegro was taken in 2011, and it’s first of its kind before this court. In the application of Korpivica v. Montenegro, the final decision came into force in 2012.

The European Court of Human Rights is a judicial institution of the Council of Europe, established in 1959, to protect the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights.

Freedom of expression is one of the fundamental rights of the Convention and is regulated in Article 10.