Online seminar for judges on freedom of expression and judicial regulation of defamation cases
Seminar
- Date:
- Location:
- Online
- Organized by:
- The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, the Supreme Court, the NGO Legal Media Centre, Internews Kazakhstan and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Source:
- OSCE Programme Office in Astana
- Fields of work:
- Human rights, Media freedom and development, Rule of law
A video recording of the event in the Russian language is available here.
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan in co-operation with the Supreme Court, the NGONGO
non-governmental organization Legal Media Centre, Internews Kazakhstan and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) organized the seminar on the protection of freedom of expression and the judicial regulation of defamation on 24 September 2020 in Nur-Sultan.
Forty judges of the Supreme Court and the city courts of Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Shymkent and regions (oblasts) throughout the country, as well as Master students of the Academy of Justice under the Supreme Court were familiarized with international best practices on judicial regulation of defamation cases. A judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) shared knowledge and expertise on how the ECHR deals with cases on defamation matters in civil, administrative and criminal proceedings. Participants also learned about international standards on defamation trials in the European Court.
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