Péter Uj

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Charge:	Libel
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Year Crime:	2008
Year Convicted:	2009
Year Cleared:	2011
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Hungary
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City of Crime:	Budapest
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Péter Uj was a journalist wrongly convicted in June 2009 of defamation in Hungary for describing in a review that a wine as "shit" which was made by the state-owned T. Zrt wine company. Uj expressed his opinion in his column published in a January 2008 in the national newspaper Népszabadság. Uj wrote the wine "had been enough to make me cry: sour, blunt and over-oxidised stuff, bad-quality ingredients collected from all kinds of leftovers, grey mould plus a bit of sugar from Szerencs, musty barrel – but because we are still there ... hundreds of thousands of Hungarians drink [this] shit with pride." The trial court found that the criticism 'went beyond the boundaries of journalistic opinion'. Uj's conviction was upheld on appeal in November 2009 by the Budapest regional court, but it changed his conviction to libel. The Hungarian Supreme Court upheld Uj's conviction in May 2010. Uj appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which on July 19, 2011 overturned Uj's conviction as violating his right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court ordered the Republic of Hungary to pay Uj €3,580 in costs."
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Innocence Proved By:	"The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on July 19, 2011 overturned Uj's conviction as violating his right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court ordered the Republic of Hungary to pay Uj €3,580 in costs."
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Information Source 1:	"Hungarian 'vin de merde' conviction quashed, By Panos Kakaviatos (staff writer), Decanter.com, July 22, 2011"
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Péter Uj

Charge:

Libel

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2008

Year Convicted:

2009

Year Cleared:

2011

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Hungary

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Budapest

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on July 19, 2011 overturned Uj's conviction as violating his right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court ordered the Republic of Hungary to pay Uj €3,580 in costs."

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Male

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"Hungarian 'vin de merde' conviction quashed, By Panos Kakaviatos (staff writer), Decanter.com, July 22, 2011"

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http://www.decanter.com/news/wine-news/529035/hungarian-vin-de-merde-conviction-quashed

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