Strasbourg, 18 December 2012 - In today’s Chamber judgment in the case of Ahmet Yıldırım v. Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been a violation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The case concerned a court decision to block access to Google Sites, which hosted an Internet site whose owner was facing criminal proceedings for insulting the memory of Atatürk. As a result of the decision, access to all other sites hosted by the service was blocked. (more...)

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