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European Court of Human Rights : Klaudia Csikós v. Hungary

Dirk Voorhoof (UGent)
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has added a new wagon on its locomotive judgment in the case of Goodwin v. United Kingdom (IRIS 1996-4:1/4) on the protection of journalistic sources. The recent judgment in the case of Klaudia Csikós v. Hungary summarizes and applies the court’s case law robustly protecting journalistic sources against secret surveillance by the police or other government agencies (see also Sergey Sorokin v. Russia, IRIS 2022-9:1/17 and Big Brother Watch a.o. v. the United Kingdom, IRIS 2021-7:1/20). The ECtHR found that the Hungarian authorities failed to address the journalist’s grievances and that there were no adequate procedural safeguards in place for the applicant journalist to challenge the alleged use of secret surveillance against her with a view to discovering her journalistic sources. The ECtHR, unanimously found a violation both under Article 8 (right to privacy) and Article 10 (freedom of expression and information) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
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Freedom of expression, protection of journalistic sources, secret surveillance, breach of Article 10 ECHR, breach of Article 8 ECHR, right to privacy

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Voorhoof, Dirk. “European Court of Human Rights : Klaudia Csikós v. Hungary.” IRIS (ENGLISH ED. ONLINE), no. 2025–1, 2025, pp. 5–7.
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Voorhoof, D. (2025). European Court of Human Rights : Klaudia Csikós v. Hungary.
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Voorhoof, Dirk. 2025. “European Court of Human Rights : Klaudia Csikós v. Hungary.” IRIS (ENGLISH ED. ONLINE).
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Voorhoof, Dirk. 2025. “European Court of Human Rights : Klaudia Csikós v. Hungary.” IRIS (ENGLISH ED. ONLINE).
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Voorhoof D. European Court of Human Rights : Klaudia Csikós v. Hungary. IRIS (ENGLISH ED. ONLINE). 2025. p. 5–7.
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D. Voorhoof, “European Court of Human Rights : Klaudia Csikós v. Hungary,” IRIS (ENGLISH ED. ONLINE), no. 2025–1. pp. 5–7, 2025.
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  title        = {{European Court of Human Rights : Klaudia Csikós v. Hungary}},
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