(CN) — When a Spanish newspaper reported on fears of Islamist extremist influence at a youth center, two social workers said the coverage ruined their reputations. On Thursday, Europe’s human rights court said Spain’s judges were entitled to side with the press.
Spanish courts were right to back the newspaper, the European Court of Human Rights said, after finding that the reporting addressed a genuine matter of public concern. The ruling clears a journalist and ABC, one of Spain’s largest daily newspapers, after two social workers sued over an article on a Barcelona facility for migrant minors that examined whether some staff were promoting religious fundamentalism — a rigid, literal interpretation of religion — in their work with unaccompanied youths.
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