Jose Mourinho has filed suit at Europe’s top rights court on grounds his right to freedom of expression was violated while managing Turkish football club Fenerbahce.
The lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights was filed in March 2025, nearly six months before he was fired by the Super Lig club after it failed to qualify for the Champions League.
Court documents seen by AFP on Thursday show the Portuguese coach filed suit over the “disciplinary sanctions” imposed on him by the Turkish Football Federation for “unsportsmanlike conduct”.
At issue were remarks he made about supporters of a rival team and about Turkish referees in November 2024, which resulted in a match ban and two fines of some $21,000.
Under Article 6 of the European Convention, “the applicant complains that the dispute in question had not been determined by an independent and impartial tribunal,” said an ECHR document dated
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