Communicated on 8 March 2017
THIRD SECTION
Application no. 48741/11
Yevgeniy Anatolyevich BYCHKOV
against Russia
lodged on 20 July 2011
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The applicant is one of many students who wrote to the president of the university to complain about unacceptable behaviour of one of the professors. Their collective complaint was never investigated but the Russian courts granted the professor’s defamation action against the students.
QUESTIONS tO THE PARTIES
Was there an interference with the applicant’s right to freedom of expression as a result of the defamation proceedings brought against him? If so, did it comply with the requirements of the second paragraph of Article 10 of the Convention (see Zakharov v. Russia, no. 14881/03, 5 October 2006; Kazakov v. Russia, no. 1758/02, 18 December 2008; and Bezymyannyy v. Russia, no. 10941/03, 8 April 2010)?
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