Case 6: International Human Rights Law

In 2004 the animal rights activist group PETA starts a campaign in Germany contrary to
large-stock livestock farming. On 7 posters pictures of animals in large-stock livestock
farming are compared to inmates of concentration camps
(http://gewitzt.blogspot.co.at/2012/05/holokaust-auf-ihrem-teller.html). The Central Council
of Jews in Germany petitions for interim injunctions against the PETA campaign, which is
granted by German courts. After the exhaustion of local remedies, the German Constitutional
Court agrees with the lower German courts and determines that “the PETA campaign
degrades the fate of Holocaust victims”.

PETA asks you as a human rights expert, whether it could go before the European Court of
Human Rights and whether PETA’s case would be successful in Strasbourg.