DAnish journalists' criminal conviction upheld over misleading cancer documentary
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has on 5th December 2017 upheld the domestic conviction of two journalists in Denmark over their reporting on cancer treatment by the Copenhagen University Hospital and its consultant. They were convicted of defamation, which is a criminal offence in Denmark.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ms Mette Frisk as author and Mr Steen Jensen as responsible editor, in September 2008, published a prime time documentary in one of the national television networks entitled “When the doctor knows…
