Glorification of Terrorist Violence at the European Court of Human Rights

Sobol, Ilya

doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngae017

Scientific article

English

Glorification of Terrorist Violence at the European Court of Human Rights

Contributors

Sobol, Ilya

Published in

Human rights law review, vol. 24, no. 3

First online date

2024-06-20

Abstract

This article examines the European Court of Human Rights’ approach towards restrictions on expression glorifying terrorist violence. This is done by situating the Court’s case law against two objections to respective criminal offences: their inherent overbreadth and their incompatibility with the restraining demands of the ‘harm principle’. In doing so, the article discusses how the ‘harm principle’ relates to the proportionality test and how the Court’s categorisation of expression glorifying violence responds to the objection of overbreadth. In arguing that the tool of categorisation has not been determinative in driving the outcomes in relevant decisions, the article suggests that engaging the existence of a competing public interest and reviewing the admissibility of reasons for such restrictions would appropriately elevate the Convention standard. Finally, the article argues that inconsistencies across decisions are best explained by the Court’s deference-giving practices, particularly in cases involving claims about the recency of terrorist violence.

Keywords

Glorification
Apologie
European Court of Human Rights
Terrorism
Freedom of expression

UNIGE affiliation entities

Faculté de droit / Département de droit international public et organisation internationale

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation - Preventing and Combating Terrorism and Violent Extremism: the Need for a Legal-Empirical Approach [176781]

Citation (ISO format)

SOBOL, Ilya. Glorification of Terrorist Violence at the European Court of Human Rights. In: Human rights law review, 2024, vol. 24, n° 3. doi: 10.1093/hrlr/ngae017

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CC BY-4.0

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PID : unige:178405
DOI : 10.1093/hrlr/ngae017

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https://academic.oup.com/hrlr/article/24/3/ngae017/7696469

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1461-7781

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Glorification of Terrorist Violence at the European Court of Human Rights

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