10.  The applicant was born in 1947 and lives in Vienna. 11.  On 7 July 1997 the weekly magazine “Profil” published an article about the applicant, who had been the manager of a company working in the field of financial consulting, and the criminal proceedings against him relating to charges of aggravated fraud. 12.  Thereupon, the applicant introduced proceedings for the publication of a reply under the Media Act. 13.  On 3 September 1997, after the Vienna Regional Criminal Court had rejected his first application for publication of a reply on formal grounds, the applicant, who was then imprisoned, drafted another request for the publication of a reply and handed it over to the prison administration on 4 September 1997 indicating that the “matter was subject to a time-limit”. 14.  The request was posted on 9 September 1997 and reached the publisher of “Profil” on the following day. 15.  On 13 November 1997 the Vienna Regional Criminal Court rejected the applicant's second application for publication of a reply, on the ground that his request had not reached the publisher on 7 September 1997 at the latest, i.e. within the statutory two-months time-limit which had started running with the publication of the article at issue. 16.  On 16 March 1998 the Vienna Court of Appeal dismissed the applicant's appeal.