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In one of its last judgments in 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found a violation of an applicant’s rights both under Article 8 (right to privacy) and Article 10 (right to freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The ECtHR found that by disclosing the identity of the applicant on the day of his arrest, by exposing him to media coverage and by publishing several (online) press releases during the pre-trial investigation, the authorities had breached the applicant’s right to reputation under Article 8 ECHR. A ban imposed on the applicant...

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has delivered a judgment concerning restrictions on literature about same-sex relationships written specifically for children. The ECtHR found that measures taken against a children’s book of fairy tales had intended to limit children’s access to information depicting same-sex relationships as essentially equivalent to different-sex relationships. According to the ECtHR, the fairy tales had not contained sexually explicit content, nor had they promoted same-sex families over others. On the contrary, the fairy tales...

This case relates to a popular article published annually about the richest people in Lithuania. The article discusses the people included in the list, identifies their possible wealth, and analyses their dynamic through the years. The article in this case identified the richest woman in Lithuania – Ms. A – who had complained to the Žurnalistų etikos inspektoriaus tarnyba (Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics — the Defendant) about a breach of the Visuomenės informavimo įstatymas (Law on the Provision of Information to the Public — the Law) and the General Data...

On 8 September 2021, the Lietuvos radijo ir televizijos komisija (Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania — RTCL) approved the description of the requirements to be applied to codes of ethics for audiovisual media services providers and video sharing platform services providers, and for the evaluation of their effectiveness (Sprendimas dėl Audiovizualinės žiniasklaidos paslaugų teikėjų ir dalijimosi vaizdo medžiaga platformos paslaugų teikėjų taikomų elgesio (etikos) kodeksų ar jų dalių veiksmingumo nustatymo tvarkos aprašo patvirtinimo; the requirements). According to the...

On 12 May 2021 the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania in a final judgment annulled the 2018 decisions of the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (RTCL), the national media regulator, on the 12-month suspension of the Russian state TV channel (IRIS 2018-4/32) and on imposing a monetary penalty on the Lithuanian cable and IPTV company INIT for its failure to comply with the suspension (IRIS 2018-7/24). The Supreme Administrative Court has also been an appeal instance in relation to the judgment of the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court in this case. The judgment reviewed various...