Lawyer Takes Tapping Case To ECHR

  • 20 May 2016 9:00 AM
Lawyer Takes Tapping Case To ECHR
Lawyer Gábor Magyar will seek compensation at the European Court of Human Rights for Blikk reporter Klaudia Csikós, whose phone was illegally tapped, he told Népszabadság. Police tapped her phone for three days based on claims lacking any foundations just to get to know her list of phone calls and map out her contacts, he claimed.

Magyar said the authorities linked Csikós to unrealistic crimes, and ignored the fact that journalists are not obliged to reveal their sources.

Noting that a reporter may only be questioned if he or she is suspected of a crime, Magyar said the authorities in this case played a game in which Csikós was said to be a suspect of a major crime simply to justify tapping her phone in order to find out who her sources were.

Police want to identify Csikós’s sources because she reported on a double murder in Érd late last year that the authorities did not wish to make public.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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