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Mobile journalism: Section 44 is dead – long live Section 43

Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 was an ongoing problem for photographers and journalists using mobile phones who would find themselves stopped, searched, and sometimesĀ arrested by police. After ongoing pressure and a judgement in the European Court of Human Rights, the section was finally suspended last July. Now Amateur Photographer reports on the Metropolitan Police defending officers’ decision to
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