LV: Association condemns criminal proceedings against a journalist
Ieva Andersone
On 15 November 2016, the Latvian Association of Journalists published an announcement condemning the recently concluded criminal proceedings against a journalist for her investigative journalism activities.
According to publicly available information, in September 2015, the State Police initiated criminal proceedings against a journalist of the public television broadcasting company LTV. The journalist was working for an investigative journalism broadcast “Aizliegtais paņēmiens” (“The Prohibited Manner”). In this broadcast, the journalists generally perform so called journalistic experiments in order to discover illegal or faulty procedures within public institutions or private companies.
In the relevant case the journalist performed an experiment in order…
