I incorrectly predicted that there's no violation of human rights in PIROGOV v. RUSSIA.

Information

  • Judgment date: 2020-01-14
  • Communication date: 2017-03-17
  • Application number(s): 27474/08
  • Country:   RUS
  • Relevant ECHR article(s): 6, 6-1, 10, 10-1, 10-2
  • Conclusion:
    Violation of Article 10 - Freedom of expression-{general} (Article 10-1 - Freedom of expression)
  • Result: Violation
    • SEE FINAL JUDGMENT

JURI Prediction

  • Probability: 0.608123
  • Prediction: No violation

  • Inconsistent


Legend

 In line with the court's judgment
 In opposition to the court's judgment
Darker color: higher probability
: In line with the court's judgment  
: In opposition to the court's judgment

Communication text used for prediction

Following a final sentence to a suspended prison term on 8 August 2007 for slandering a regional governor, a civil court ordered the applicant to pay 850 euros to him and to have a refutation printed in a local newspaper for saying during a public event: “Markelov used various criminal-type means (криминальные методы) to fight us.
[Yes.]
My flat was broken into; the head of the [local NGO] was beaten up; we received threats, some of us were asked ‘What Article of the Criminal Code do you prefer; are you ready to go to prison for child rape or alike?
We do have examples of that’.” The courts considered that the applicant had wrongly accused the governor of being linked to or having organised commission of criminal offences.
The courts refused to assess the linguistics expert report submitted by the applicant, considering that it focused on a legal (rather than linguistic) assessment of the case, which was not permissible under Russian law.

Judgment