Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/13

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Subject: [Leica] UK police use anti-terrorism laws to stop photographers -- and so do American ones
From: lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:16:41 +0000
 
If you think that's bad, welcome to Stasi Britain...

<http://www.bindmans.com/index.php?id=672>

This kind of thing is being reported on an almost daily basis over here -
though this is one of the worst examples of it's kind. A photographer who
has recognised photojournalist credentials is on a wedding shoot and is told
by the police to stop as she is committing an offence.

Steve


On 13/12/09 02:41, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:

> And in Australia. I was stopped after pausing to take photos of clouds from
> a pedestrian overpass bridge because I was on state railway property. The
> letter I wrote in protest citing that I was within their own rules that I
> researched afterwards (and they are so broad as to allow for overzealous
> interpretation without recourse) was ignored.
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