Austria: Protection of a Holocaust survivor’s reputation

20/10/2021

On 20 October, the Committee of Ministers ended the supervision of execution by Austria of the European Court’s judgment in Lewit, which concerned a violation of the reputation of the applicant, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor. In defamation proceedings he had initiated, the domestic courts rejected his claims, failing to examine the central issue raised, i.e. that he had been defamed by a right-wing periodical article targeting through abusive language people, like him, liberated from the Mauthausen concentration camp.

https://www.coe.int/en/web/execution...r-s-reputation