LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 18.05.09. Police forcibly detain a press photographer, as Tamil protesters occupy a road outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday 18 May 2009 in London, England. Justin Tallis, a press photographer and NUJ member, was forcibly removed from the protest and detained by a group of police officers. Mr. Tallis was later released from a police van at the scene and received medic attention from London ambulance service paramedics. (Photo by Marc Valle/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Valle, 2009.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 18.05.09. Police forcibly detain a press photographer, as Tamil protesters occupy a road outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday 18 May 2009 in London, England. Justin Tallis, a press photographer and NUJ member, was forcibly removed from the protest and detained by a group of police officers. Mr. Tallis was later released from a police van at the scene and received medic attention from London ambulance service paramedics. (Photo by Marc Valle/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Valle, 2009.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 18.05.09. Police forcibly detain a press photographer, as Tamil protesters occupy a road outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday 18 May 2009 in London, England. Justin Tallis, a press photographer and NUJ member, was forcibly removed from the protest and detained by a group of police officers. Mr. Tallis was later released from a police van at the scene and received medic attention from London ambulance service paramedics. (Photo by Marc Valle/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Valle, 2009.
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[...] Monday, Metropolitan Police officers forcibly removed and detained, Justin Tallis, a press photographer and NUJ member, from a Tamil protest outside the [...]
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Could we have more details to make a judgement? The police told this photographer why they were arresting him and holding him in a police van. What did he tell you? What did he do to offend the police or attract their attention when the Tamil protest was swarming with other photographers?
It is a misadventure by police officials. This act is the suppression of press freedom. Manhandling the photographer is a inhuman thing and police course need to teach the police officers on how to deal with press.