Article 17 - Prohibition of abuse of rights
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Zhablyanov v. Bulgaria, no. 36658/18
27/06/23
Removal of a Deputy Speaker of Parliament for speeches and behaviour justifying repressions of the communist regime.
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Zemmour v. France, no. 63539/19
20/12/22
Conviction for inciting discrimination and religious hatred.
JudgmentAlleged absence of an effective domestic remedy for the authorities’ refusal to provide journalists with the audio recording of a government’s consultative meeting, acknowledgment of the Supreme Administrative Court that this refusal had been unlawful and ill-founded.
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- Prohibition of abuse of rights (no. CDH(75)7)
- Prohibition of abuse of rights (no. DH(57)4)
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