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Scharsach and News Verlagsgesellschaft mbH v Austria, Merits, App No 39394/98, ECHR 2003-XI, 40 EHRR 569, IHRL 3207 (ECHR 2003), 13th November 2003, European Court of Human Rights [ECHR]

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Whether a statement, which made reference to a politician as a ‘closet Nazi’, was a statement of opinion or of fact for the purposes of Article 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (‘European Convention on Human Rights’).

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