Communicated on 3 October 2019
FOURTH SECTION
Application no. 22953/16
Adina-Isabella STANCU and others
against Romania
lodged on 21 April 2016
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the sentence imposed on the applicants - two newspaper editors and the company they were working for - following the final judgment of the Bucharest Court of Appeal of 17 June 2015 (available to the applicants on 23 October 2015) for a press article approved by them and published in an online newspaper on 2 August 2012. The article concerned the vice-president of the Superior Council of Magistrates and a judicial error allegedly made by her when she had worked as a superior prosecutor attached to the Bacău Prosecutor’s Office, namely her endorsement of the indictment for murder of a student who was acquitted afterwards by the domestic courts. The applicants argued that the sentence imposed on them to pay civil damages aimed at intimidating them, was not justified by a pressing social need and breached their right to freedom of expression.
QUESTION TO THE PARTIES
Has there been a violation of the applicants’ right to freedom of expression contrary to Article 10 of the Convention (see Axel Springer AG v. Germany [GC], no. 39954/08, 7 February 2012)?
APPENDIX
No.
Applicant’s Name
Birth date
Nationality
Place of residence
1
Adina-Isabella STANCU
10/03/1964
Romanian
Bucharest
2
Ovidiu Răzvan SAVALIUC
13/10/1967
Romanian
Bucharest
3
SOCIETATEA JURINDEX MEDIA S.R.L.
Created on 16/06/2010
Romanian
Bucharest
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