Latvia: Association condemns criminal proceedings against a journalist
by 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 from public broadcaster LTV. The journalist was working for an investigative journalism broadcast - "Aizliegtais paņēmiens", or "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 to…
