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European Court of Human Rights found Greece in violation of Article 10 in CASE OF ALEXANDROS SAVVAS v. GREECE

On 8 September 2026 a Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered judgment in CASE OF ALEXANDROS SAVVAS v. GREECE (application no. 27153/20).

On 8 September 2026 a Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered judgment in a case it titles “CASE OF ALEXANDROS SAVVAS v. GREECE”, brought against Greece under application no. 27153/20.

The Court recorded a violation of Article 10 of the Convention.

The Court states its conclusion as: “Violation of Article 10 - Freedom of expression - {general} (Article 10-1 - Freedom of expression);Pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage - award (Article 41 - Non-pecuniary damage;Pecuniary damage;Just satisfaction)”

The wording in quotation marks above is the Court's own conclusion, reproduced so that the finding can be checked against the record. It is not this service's summary of the judgment.

This record establishes that the Court delivered this judgment on 8 September 2026 and what it recorded as its findings. It does not establish anything about the underlying events beyond what the Court found, it does not report what either party said, and it does not state what follows for Greece or for anyone else. A Chamber judgment may be referred to the Grand Chamber and is not necessarily the end of the case.

Times

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Event occurred
8 September 2026, 00:00 UTC (as recorded by the source)
Published here
12 September 2026, 02:10 UTC

Evidence

Record identifier
ECLI:CE:ECHR:2026:0908JUD002715320
Retrieved
12 September 2026, 14:23 UTC
Snapshot checksum
5b42b1e9150e8d79c0c1b50e3d3cef0dd0c223d66859fabb9a83929d80708347
Attribution
Case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, from HUDOC. (C) ECHR-CEDH. — ECHR copyright and disclaimer
Where each figure above comes from (8 values)
ValueAs publishedOriginSource field or calculation
Case name, as the Court titles it CASE OF ALEXANDROS SAVVAS v. GREECE field docname
Application number 27153/20 field appno
Respondent State Greece calculation country name for ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code GRC
Date of judgment 2026-09-08 field kpdate
Bench Chamber field doctypebranch
Conclusion, in the Court's own words Violation of Article 10 - Freedom of expression - {general} (Article 10-1 - Freedom of expression);Pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage - award (Article 41 - Non-pecuniary damage;Pecuniary damage;Just satisfaction) field conclusion
Reproduced from the Court's record so that the finding can be checked against it. It is not this service's summary.
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:CE:ECHR:2026:0908JUD002715320 field ecli
Identifies the judgment rather than one language version of it. HUDOC publishes an English and a French record per judgment.
Articles the Court recorded a violation of 10 calculation article numbers taken from each code before the first '-' or '+'

Wording template echr_judgment version 1.0.

Revision history

  • 12 September 2026, 02:10 UTC — First publication

    Assembled from the source record listed under evidence. This record predates the start of this service's coverage and was added when the source was first read.

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Chamber and Grand Chamber judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, in English. Committee judgments are not reported: they apply well-established case-law to repetitive applications and are roughly two thirds of the Court's output by volume, so excluding them is a large omission and is stated here rather than left to be discovered. Decisions on admissibility, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries are not reported either. Where the Court found a violation on one limb of an article and none on another, that is reported as appearing in both findings; neither half is ever stated without the other. Case names are reproduced as the Court publishes them, including where they name an applicant and where the Court has anonymised one. This service makes no separate anonymisation decision. A judgment establishes what the Court decided on a date. It does not establish anything about the underlying events beyond the Court's own findings, it does not report what either party argued, and a Chamber judgment may still be referred to the Grand Chamber.

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