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good news for the press: A judge dismissed a criminal case against Augustin Scalbert, a Rue89 journalist indicted in June 2010 on charges of “stealing
Committee to Protect Journalists
given the risk of regression as seen under President Nicolas Sarkozy,"
said Augustin Scalbert,
a documentary film producer and former journalist at the digital daily Rue89. "
"Champagne." Augustin Scalbert's tweet on Monday could not have better expressed the joy and relief at Rue89, a leading French news website. After four years of legal procedures, a Paris judge had just announced he was dropping all charges against the journalist "for lack of evidence" in a case...
forced him to undergo
strip searches.
June 2010: A Paris prosecutor indicted Augustin Scalbert, a journalist with the news website
Rue89, on charges of “stealing
Federation for Human Rights for a joint
press conference in Paris. As Augustin Scalbert told CPJ, the meeting was used
by Uzbek human rights defenders
publishing a series of articles exposing tobacco smuggling in the Balkans.
FRANCE
Augustin Scalbert, a journalist for the news website Rue89, was indicted in June on
French journalists are flabbergasted. One of their colleagues, Augustin Scalbert, a journalist with Rue89, a leading news Web site, has just
