Modinos v. Cyprus

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Modinos v Cyprus (judgment of 25 March 1993) is a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights concerning Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights

[edit] Facts

Mr. Modinos, a homosexual rights activist, who was at the time involved in a sexual relationship with another male adult, claimed to suffer great stain, apprehension, and fear of prosecution by reason of the laws of Cyprus, which criminalized certain homosexual acts.

[edit] Judgment

(8 votes to one)

The existence of a prohibition continuously and directly affected the applicant’s private life, thus there was an interference with his right to respect for private life. As the Government limited their submissions to maintaining that there was no interference, and did not seek to argue that there existed a justification under Article 8(2) for the impugned legal provisions, the Court did not find that - in the light of the above mentioned fact and having regard to the its judgment in Dudgeon v. United Kingdom and Norris v. Ireland - a re-examination of the question was called for.