Court protects journalist for covering anti-globalism march at G8 summit
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has on 13 February 2018 issued a judgement defending the right of a Ukrainian journalist to cover a demonstration in St. Petersburg during a G8 Summit.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mr. Maksim Aleksandrovich Butkevich, who had volunteered to cover the summit for the Libertarian Information and News Collective (LINC), was photographing an “anti-globalism” march in Nevskiy Avenue in St. Petersburg on 16 July 2006. The demonstration was considered unlawful by the authorities as they had not…