“Swiss stun grenade case to conclude on Friday” – National Union of Journalists.
From the National Union of Journalists, “A six-year fight for justice by photojournalist Guy Smallman will come to a conclusion in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Friday 20 November. Click here to read more.
Click here for background to the story.
Update 20.11.09: Guy has just told me – we are both here at NUJ ADM – that he has won his six-year fight for justice!
IMAGES BEFORE (above) and after (below) an operation of injuries sustained by photojournalist Guy Smallman after he was hit by a stun grenade whilst covering a protest outside a G8 summit in Geneva in June 2003. Published here by kind permission of the NUJ.
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