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The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:
Faris Vehabović , President , Iulia Antoanella Motoc, Branko Lubarda , judges , and Veronika Kotek, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
the application (no. 4222/18 ) against the Republic of Austria lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") on 18 January 2018 by an Austrian national, Ms Christa Zöchling ("the applicant"), who was born in 1959 and lives in Vienna and who was represented by Mr H. Simon, a lawyer practising in Vienna;
the decision to give notice of the application to the Austrian Government ("the Government"), represented by their Agent, Ambassador H. Tichy, Head of the International Law Department at the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs;
The case concerns a complaint under Article 8 § 1 of the Convention about the refusal to hold the publisher of an Internet news portal liable for hate speech in users' comments.
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