EU court rules Holocaust denial not protected speech under civil rights law

Re:EU court rules Holocaust denial not protected speech unde... by antientropic on Friday October 04, 2019 @05:56AM (#21156196)

The headline is wrong: the European Court of Human Rights is not an EU court. There is also no such thing as a "European Union Convention on Human Rights". You'd expect a website that specializes in legal news to get this right.

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Re:EU court rules Holocaust denial not protected speech unde... by jaclaz on Friday October 04, 2019 @06:23AM (#21156297)

I am not sure to understand what you are finding "wrong":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...

>The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe. Drafted in 1950 by the then newly formed Council of Europe, the convention entered into force on 3 September 1953. All Council of Europe member states are party to the Convention and new members are expected to ratify the convention at the earliest opportunity.

The Convention established the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

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Re:EU court rules Holocaust denial not protected speech unde... by tom_mellior on Friday October 04, 2019 @06:37AM (#21156376)

The article says "European Union Convention", not "European Convention". And as your quote also shows, it's a Council of Europe thing rather than a European Communit(y|ies)/European Union thing.

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Re:EU court rules Holocaust denial not protected speech unde... by jaclaz on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:40AM (#21158711)

I see, thanks, I read EU in the headline as short for Europe, not short for European Union.

The OP comment was about the headline being wrong, not the contents of the article, and I couldn't see where that was wrong.

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Re:EU court rules Holocaust denial not protected speech unde... by sergioj97 on Friday October 04, 2019 @02:08PM (#21160288)

EU stands for European Union.

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Re:EU court rules Holocaust denial not protected speech unde... by RugnirViking on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:45AM (#21157583)

This matters if you are say in Albania, a member of the Council of Europe but not yet in the EU.

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Re:EU court rules Holocaust denial not protected speech unde... by IfOnlyYouKnew on Friday October 04, 2019 @12:41PM (#21159396)

And, slightly larger, Russia.

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