Kuala Lampur, March 9 -- More than 2 years ago, in There is no freedom to insult I shared the case of ES v Austria, a 2018 judgement of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which upheld the restrictions in Article 10(2) of the European Convention of Human Right (ECHR) on freedom of expression. https://www.malaymail.com/news/what-you-think/2022/08/01/there-is-no-freedom-to-insult-hafiz-hassan/20347

Article 10(1) ECHR guarantees the right to freedom of expression. This right "shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers".

Article 10(2) ECHR, however, restricts the right as follows:

The exercise of these freedoms, since it...