Top court rules against the republication of photo showing Swiss journalist in detention
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided that the German domestic courts were right to sanction the republication of a famous Swiss journalist and presenter’s photograph showing him without his shirt in a detention centre.
Building of the European Court of Human Rights (photo: CherryX)
The journalist was arrested and placed in pre-trial detention in March 2010 suspected of aggravated rape and dangerous assaults towards his former partner.
The photograph was published by the German daily newspaper Bild in June 2010. A few days later, the journalist was released from detention; and in the following year’s trial he was acquitted of…