Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Why media were able to report the identities of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson as they were arrested

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par Polly Rippon, University Teacher in Journalism, University of Sheffield

When someone is arrested and under police investigation, we usually don’t know their names. Police reveal only their gender, age and the crime for which they are under suspicion, and the media reports it.

The arrests of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson were a striking exception to this practice. When the police said they had “arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk” on February…

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