01 December, 2008

France: journalist arrested

While Britain seethes over the arrest of an opposition politician, life across the channel doesn't seem that much better.

A senior journalist with Libération, Vittorio de Filippis, was arrested and handcuffed in front of his children in a 6.30am raid, for an allegedly defamatory comment left on Libération's website by a reader, two years ago.

Apparently Emperor Sarkozy is holding discussions about the constitutional position of the press in France. He might start by looking at this.

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