{"id":5017,"date":"2025-02-05T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/2025\/02\/case-of-klimova-and-others-v-russia\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T09:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T07:27:12","slug":"case-of-klimova-and-others-v-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/2025\/02\/case-of-klimova-and-others-v-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"CASE OF KLIMOVA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision concerns several cases related to restrictions on LGBTI-related content in Russia, particularly focusing on the promotion of homosexuality among minors.The Court found violations of Article 8 (right to privacy) regarding collection of personal data from social networks, and Article 10 (freedom of expression) regarding convictions for administrative offenses and blocking of websites\/social media pages for &#8216;promoting homosexuality among minors&#8217;.Key provisions of the decision:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Court ruled that collection of user data from social networks by security services without adequate safeguards violated privacy rights<\/li>\n<li>Restrictions on LGBTI-related content based solely on sexual orientation considerations were found incompatible with the Convention<\/li>\n<li>The Court emphasized that it is not justifiable to restrict children&#8217;s access to information about same-sex relationships where there is no evidence such information is harmful<\/li>\n<li>The Court found that convictions for third-party content posted on social networks without prior moderation were based on overly broad interpretation of law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most important provisions for application:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Court established that collection of social network user data requires proper legal safeguards and judicial oversight<\/li>\n<li>Restrictions on LGBTI-related content must be based on evidence of actual harm, not just sexual orientation considerations<\/li>\n<li>Administrators of social network groups cannot be held liable for third-party content without clear legal provisions establishing such liability<\/li>\n<li>Age restriction warnings may be sufficient for content control rather than outright bans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/?i=001-241568\"><strong>Full text by link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision concerns several cases related to restrictions on LGBTI-related content in Russia, particularly focusing on the promotion of homosexuality among minors.The Court found violations of Article 8 (right to privacy) regarding collection of personal data from social networks, and Article 10 (freedom of expression) regarding convictions for administrative offenses and blocking of websites\/social media&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[129,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-echr-decisions","category-eu-legislation-important","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"patreon-level":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}