On February 7th, the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR heard the case Stoll v. Switzerland. The applicant, a Swiss national and journalist, alleges that his freedom of expression was violated by Switzerland. Mr. Stoll took possession of a confidential document written by a Swiss diplomat and published extracts of the document as well as articles highly critical of the Swiss diplomat’s conduct. He was subsequently sentenced under the Swiss Criminal Code for publishing “official confidential deliberationsâ€. For more details see here.
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