Court decides police were wrong to refuse journalist accreditation for political event
By Jane Whyatt
The High Court in London has ruled that police wrongly classed a political reporter as a security risk because he was present when activists released cockroaches and locusts into a restaurant.
The Royal Courts of Justice in London. Photo Royal Court2, CC BY-SA 2.0
The police assessment: ’Whether or not he was there as a journalist.... he placed the public at risk’. The case raises serious issues for press freedom and journalists’ rights. Michael Segalov challenged the refusal to accredit him for the 2017 Labour Party conference in Brighton, with support from the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom’s…
