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Remarks by Alejandra Gonza

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2018

Alejandra Gonza
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Article 13 of the American Convention was designed to provide robust guarantees for the freedom of thought and expression. Early Inter-American case law conceived freedom of speech as a primary means to control state power and provided strong protection to varied expression. This included ideas and information considered “offensive, shocking, unsettling or disturbing for the state or to any sector of the population.” In fact, the Court was the first international tribunal to recognize the right to access to state-held information as part of the protection of freedom of expression.

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The Inter-American Human Rights System: Latest Jurisprudential Advances and Setbacks
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 111 , 2017 , pp. 263 - 265
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Copyright © by The American Society of International Law 2018 

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References

1 Compulsory Membership in an Association Prescribed by Law for the Practice of Journalism (Arts. 13 and 29 American Convention on Human Rights), Advisory Opinion OC-5/85, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) No. 5, paras. 54 and 47 (Nov. 13, 1985).

2 E.g., Memoli v. Argentina, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 265, para. 130 (Aug. 22, 2013); Tristán Donoso v. Panama, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 193, para. 56 (Jan. 27, 2009).

3 E.g., Compulsory Membership in an Association Prescribed by Law for the Practice of Journalism (Arts. 13 and 29 American Convention on Human Rights), Advisory Opinion OC-5/85, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) No. 5, para. 172 (Nov. 13, 1985).

4 Cepeda Vargas v. Colombia, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C.) No. 213 (May 26, 2010).

5 López Álvarez v. Honduras, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 141 (Feb. 1, 2006); Palamara Iribarne v. Chile, Merits, Reparations, Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 135 (Nov. 22, 2005).

6 “The Last Temptation Of Christ” (Olmedo Bustos et al.) v. Chile, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 73 (Feb. 5, 2001).

7 Granier et al. (Radio Caracas Television) v. Venezuela, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 293 (June 22, 2015).

8 Thomas M. Antkowiak & Alejandra Gonza, The American Convention on Human Rights: Essential Rights (2017).

9 Kimel v. Argentina, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 177 (May 2, 2008); Memoli v. Argentina, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 265 (Aug. 22, 2013).

10 Palamara Iribarne v. Chile, Merits, Reparations, Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 135 (Nov. 22, 2005).

11 Memoli v. Argentina, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 265, para. 141 (Aug. 22, 2013); Usón Ramírez v. Venezuela, Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 207, para. 86 (Nov. 20, 2009).

12 Usón Ramírez v. Venezuela, Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 207, para. 88 (Nov. 20, 2009).

13 Granier et al. (Radio Caracas Television) v. Venezuela, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 293, para. 153 (June 22, 2015).

14 Perozo et al. v. Venezuela, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 195, para. 402 (Jan. 28, 2009).