Resumen de Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos: Asunto «Rubio Dosamantes» c. España, demanda no 20996/10: sentencia de 21 de febrero de 2017
- español
En el asunto «Rubio Dosamantes c. España», la conocida cantante mexicana Paulina Rubio, acudió al Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos (TEDH) para denunciar que ciertos comentarios manifestados en diversos programas de televisión, relativos a su orientación sexual o la relación tormentosa que mantuvo con una antigua pareja, suponían una violación del derecho al respeto de su vida privada. El TEDH encontró una violación del art. 8 del Convenio para la protección de los derechos humanos y las libertades fundamentales, por entender que los tribunales internos no habían realizado una ponderación adecuada de los derechos e intereses en juego. El Tribunal subrayó que el hecho de que se tratara de una persona famosa no implicaba que las actividades o conductas de su vida privada fueran de interés público. La sentencia implica la necesidad de que el Tribunal Constitucional revise sus criterios en esta materia y de que ejerza un mayor control sobre los contenidos y repercusiones de los programas sensacionalistas.
- English
In the case concerning Rubio Dosamantes v. Spain, the applicant was Mexican pop singer Paulina Rubio. She complained before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that some comments that had been made in various television programmes had breached her right to respect for her private life. Those comments concerned her sexual orientation or her allegedly stormy relationship with her former partner. The ECHR found a breach of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights insofar as the domestic courts had not carefully weighed the rights and interests in the balance to establish whether the necessity of the restriction imposed on the applicant’s right to respect for her private life had been established in a convincing manner. The Court remarked that the fact that she was a well-known public figure did not mean that her activities or conduct in her private life should be regarded as necessarily falling within the public interest. The Court’s judgment involves both the need for the Spain’s Constitutional Court to review its doctrine in this field, and to exercise proper control on the contents and repercussion of sensationalist programs.
