Category: Access & Censorship

PDNPulse: Arrested Subway Photographer Files Lawsuit:

Robert Taylor, the transit employee and subway photography buff who was arrested earlier this year for taking a picture a New York City subway train, is suing the city over the incident.

Iran: 26 journalists confirmed arrested – Boing Boing

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George McLeod – The Globe and Mail:

When we stopped, an officer grabbed me, pinned my arm behind my back and led me into the bowels of the Interior Ministry headquarters – where so many Iranian dissidents ‘disappear’ Mistaken for a protester in Tehran, Globe freelancer George McLeod was captured and beaten by riot police. This is his story.

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Holly Stuart Hughes, PDN:

A European photographer who was arrested in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday was not subjected to violence, but says, “other colleagues have not had such good luck.” Speaking to PDN by phone Wednesday night, the photographer says other journalists described being beaten and having their cameras and memory cards destroyed.

CORY DOCTOROW – Boing Boing:

Vancouver, site of an upcoming Olympic games, has just announced a policy prohibiting cops from taking away your camera or making you erase your photos.

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Editorial Photographers UK:

Solicitors acting for the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) are to make a formal complaint to the Data Commissioner over the failure of the Met police to provide details under the Data Protection Act of their surveillance of journalists.

PDNPulse: No Pictures: Iran Officially Bans Foreign Media

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CORY DOCTOROW – Boing Boing:

In Britain, cops have the power to search you if you take a picture of a “sensitive” area, but they won’t tell you which areas are “sensitive,” because they’re so “sensitive.”

Thomas Hawk Digital Connection:

The video above is from a Discarted.com altercation with a private security guard over a photographer’s right to shoot in public

Seattlepi.com:

“Taking photographs of objects or people in plain view is not a crime. Police should not presume that it is a suspicious act, and should not overreact by detaining people for taking pictures,” said Sarah Dunne, legal director of the ACLU’s Washington chapter.

PDNPulse: New Details on Unreleased Prisoner Abuse Photos

Boing Boing says:

“Charlie Skelton, reporting for the Guardian from outside the apparent location of this year’s Bilderberg Conference [ed: s33kr1t high-powered meeting of financial leaders and politicos], has been intimidated out of the area and is still being hassled on the Athens subway – series of reports and photos of the goons, who are by turns terrifying and comically incompetent.

Boing Boing says:

Here’s a scan of the NYPD Operations Order “Investigation of Individuals Engaged In Suspicious Photography and Video Surveillance,” a document issued last month by the Department telling cops in no uncertain terms to stop hassling photographers who shoot in public places, and to get a warrant before searching a camera

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