European High Court Affirms Free Speech for Pro-life Advocates

By Published on December 4, 2015

STRASBOURG, France – The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favor of German pro-life advocate Klaus Annen, upholding his right to freedom of expression. German courts had banned him from distributing leaflets in front of abortion clinics and naming the doctors running those clinics on his website.

When the ECHR took on the case, ADF International filed an expert brief in Annen v. Germany on behalf of Aktion Lebensrecht für Alle, one of Germany’s largest pro-life organizations, arguing that the ECHR should protect freedom of speech in line with its previous case law.

Read the article “European High Court Affirms Free Speech for Pro-life Advocates” on adfmedia.org.

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