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Goncalo Amaral's book can return into bookshops

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Original Source: JORNAL DE NOTICIAS TUESDAY 19 OCTOBER 2010
by Marisa Rodrigues

With thanks to Astro for translation

 

Goncalo Amaral’s book about the Madeleine McCann case can return into bookshops. The Appeals Court of Lisbon has just agreed with the former Policia Judiciária coordinator, who has always defended the thesis of the little English girl’s death.

“The contents of the book does not offend any of the fundamental rights of the applicants [the McCann couple and their three children]” and “the exercise of its writing and publication is included in the constitutional rights that are assured to everyone by the European Convention for Human Rights and by the Portuguese Republic’s Constitution”, reads the decision, to which JN [Jornal de Noticias] had access.
In September 2009, after an
injunction that was filed by the McCann couple, the Civil Court of Lisbon forbade the sale of the book “The Truth of the Lie” and also the reproduction of a documentary that is based upon the book and was broadcast by TVI.

A decision that earns harsh criticism from the Appeals Court judges. To forbid the former PJ coordinator “of expressing his opinion, by any means (in writing, interview, analysis, commentary), about what he wrote in that book, cuts off one of his rights that is constitutional and universal: that of opinion and of freedom of expression”, the decision mentions.

The three Appeals Court judges that sign the decision furthermore consider that the sentence from the Civil Court of Lisbon violated the Portuguese Republic’s Constitution and the European Convention for Human Rights.

Apart from watching “The Truth of the Lie” returning to bookshops,
Goncalo Amaral sees his right to freedom of expression returned to himself.

in: Jornal de Noticias, 19.10.2010

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