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The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:
The case originated in an application (no. 31457/96) against the Republic of Austria lodged with the European Commission of Human Rights (“the Commission”) under former Article 25 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a company with its seat in Austria, News Verlags GmbH & Co.KG (“the applicant company”), on 13 March 1996.
The applicant company complained that court decisions prohibiting it from publishing the picture of the suspect in the context of reports on the criminal proceedings against him violated its right to freedom of expression and discriminated against it. It invoked Article 10 of the Convention taken alone and in conjunction with Article 14.
On 16 April 1998 the Commission (First Chamber) decided to give notice of the application to the Austrian Government (“the Government”) and invited them to submit their observations on its admissibility and merits.
The Government submitted their observations on 20 July 1998, after an extension of the time-limit fixed for that purpose. The applicant company replied on 16 November 1998, also after an extension of the time-limit.
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