Thursday, July 1, 2010

British journalists win settlement after police refuse to let them film protest

The Guardian reports that two journalists have won an out-of-court settlement after the Metropolitan police admitted failing to respect the freedom of the press when officers prevented them covering a protest.One of the journalists, film-maker Jason Parkinson, almost had his half-smoked cigarette swiped from his mouth and was called "scum" by an armed diplomatic officer during the incident at the Greek embassy in London in December 2008. He and photojournalist Marc Vallée were covering an impromptu demonstration outside the Greek Embassy in Holland Park, west London.

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