The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a complaint from a German blogger who protested his conviction
for publishing a picture of Nazi official Heinrich Himmler in full uniform (showing the swastika) on his blog in 2014. The court found that the domestic authorities had provided relevant
and sufficient reasons, taking German history as a weighty factor into account, for interfering with the bloggers right to freedom of
expression and had not gone beyond their room for manoeuvre in the case.
Tech & Rights
Strasbourg Rejects Free Expression Complaint Over Himmler Post
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a complaint from a German blogger who protested his conviction for publishing a picture of Nazi official Heinrich Himmler in full uniform (showing the swastika) on his...
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