Germany: judge was right to ban photos of man who butchered his parents
by Emil Weber
The Fifth Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) backed on Thursday a domestic German judge for barring the media from publishing the identifiable photograph of a man who was alleged to have murdered his parents unless he was proved guilty.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg
A 28 year old was arrested in 2010 and was charged with "killing his parents, dismembering their bodies, burning some of the parts, flushing others down the toilet and disposing of the rest by putting them in barrels". He had admitted the crime and several regional newspapers…
