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Siderov, founding leader of the far-right nationalist Ataka party, entered parliament in 2005. Siderov, to court over his extreme propaganda against their communities. It is underdeveloped in cases brought by hate speech victims and far more evolved in cases brought by hate speakers under Article 10 as discussed in the commentary below. Consequently, the case law on hate speech has been lopsided. This represents a quantum leap: the Court has struggled to recognize the impact of identity abuse on individual dignity.

articulated criteria to assess if speech is sufficiently prejudicial to affect a community’s sense of identity/ its members’ self-worth.

found violations in cases of general anti-minority speech.

Domestic courts failed to protect their ‘private life’ from ethnic discrimination leading to a finding of a violation of Articles 8 and 14 of the Convention.

The applicants, community members, were not personally targeted. The twin cases, stemming from collective domestic litigation, concern anti-Semitic/ anti-Roma hate speech. On 16 February 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (‘the Court’) decided ground-breaking cases of minority othering: Behar and Gutman Budinova and Chaprazov.

She represented them until 2018 when a substitute lawyer appropriated them. The author was the architect of the cases discussed below, having brought them domestically in 2005 and lodged them with the Court in 2013. Bulgaria, and other landmark cases like Yordanova v. She litigated Behar, Budinova and Panayotova and Others v.

Ilieva, a strategic equality and human rights litigator with extensive experience in hate speech.