THIRD SECTION
DECISION
Application no 74742/14
Rolf Anders Daniel PIHL
against Sweden
The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on
7 February 2017 as a Chamber composed of:
Branko Lubarda, President,
Helena Jäderblom,
Luis López Guerra,
Helen Keller,
Pere Pastor Vilanova,
Alena Poláčková,
Georgios A. Serghides, judges,
and Stephen Phillips, Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 22 November 2014,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
THE FACTS
1. The applicant, Mr Rolf Anders Daniel Pihl, is a Swedish national who
was born in 1986 and lives in Linköping, Sweden.
A. The circumstances of the case
2. The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be
summarised as follows.
3. On 29 September 2011, a blog post was published accusing the
applicant of being involved in a Nazi party. The blog on which the post
appeared was a small one run by a non-profit association. Although the blog
allowed comments to be posted, it was clearly stated that such comments
were not checked before publication and that commentators were