19:24 May 22 2014 Helsinki, 7;8, Kluuvi, Helsinki, Helsingin seutukunta, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, 00120, Finland<\/p>\n
On April 29 2014, the European Court of Human Rights rejected a free speech claim over a defamation conviction by a Finnish journalist.<\/p>\n
In August 2006 journalist Tiina Johanna Salumaki and her editor in chief were convicted of defaming a businessman. The newspaper published a front page story, asking whether the victim of a homicide had connections with this businessman, K. U.<\/p>\n
The court ruled that Salumaki and the newspaper had to pay damages and costs to K. U.<\/p>\n
This year they appealed at the European Court of Human Rights. According to Salumaki her right to free expression was breached.<\/p>\n
The Human Rights court rejected her free speech claim and ruled in favor of K. U. ‘There was no violation of the freedom of speech in a case in which the damage was more related to the context of the information published in the newspaper than in its accuracy’.<\/p>\n
From http:\/\/mediafreedom.ushahidi.com\/reports\/view\/48<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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