
European Court of Human Rights : GRA Stiftung gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus v. Switzerland
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- Dirk Voorhoof (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- In a case against Switzerland the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) strongly emphasised the right of a non-governmental organisation (NGO) to use robust language in criticising on its website a politician, and labelling his discourse as racist speech. The NGO had posted a blog post during the heated political debate on the referendum about the prohibition to build minarets in Switzerland, in which it referred to B.K., the president of a local branch of the Young Swiss People’s Party (JSVP). In a public speech B.K. had said that the Swiss guiding culture (“schweizerische Leitkultur”) is based on Christianity and that minarets as a symbolic sign of another culture should not be tolerated. It was this speech and this reasoning that the NGO GRA Stiftung gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus qualified on a blog post as “verbal racism”.
- Keywords
- Freedom of Expression, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, case law, hate speech
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8563792
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- Voorhoof, Dirk. “European Court of Human Rights : GRA Stiftung Gegen Rassismus Und Antisemitismus v. Switzerland.” IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY, no. 6, 2018.
- APA
- Voorhoof, D. (2018). European Court of Human Rights : GRA Stiftung gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus v. Switzerland. IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY, (6).
- Chicago author-date
- Voorhoof, Dirk. 2018. “European Court of Human Rights : GRA Stiftung Gegen Rassismus Und Antisemitismus v. Switzerland.” IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY, no. 6.
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- Voorhoof, Dirk. 2018. “European Court of Human Rights : GRA Stiftung Gegen Rassismus Und Antisemitismus v. Switzerland.” IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY (6).
- Vancouver
- 1.Voorhoof D. European Court of Human Rights : GRA Stiftung gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus v. Switzerland. IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY. 2018;(6).
- IEEE
- [1]D. Voorhoof, “European Court of Human Rights : GRA Stiftung gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus v. Switzerland,” IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY, no. 6, 2018.
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