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European court raps France for fining two investigative journalists

European court raps France for fining two investigative journalists
# 08 June 2007 15:03 (UTC +04:00)
Europe’s human rights court ruled Thursday that France had violated the right to freedom of expression of two journalists fined over a book detailing the presidency’s use of illegal wiretaps, APA Europe bureau reports.
Jerome Dupuis and Jean-Marie Pontaut were, unfairly convicted in France of using classified information obtained through a "breach of confidentiality" in their 1996 book "The Ears of the President".
The court pointed out in a statement that the book "satisfied a concrete and sustained public demand in view of the increasing interest shown nowadays in the day-to-day workings of justice."
Their book described an elaborate system of telephone tapping and record keeping carried out by the president’s office between 1983 and 1986. /APA/
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