by Emil Weber
Fining a Norwegian journalist for refusing to provide evidence on the source of information amounted to violation of freedom of information on insufficient grounds, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Thursday. That is despite the claims of a convicted insider trader that he was the source.
Tore Sætre, Hausmanns bro Akerselva Atrium (133059), CC BY-SA 4.0
Ms. Cecilie Langum Becker, working for the online Dagens Næringsliv (DN) newspaper ( it means ‘Business Daily’), had received a faxed letter in August 2007. It gave the impression that “it had been written on behalf of a number of…