A team of Presstv news production staff has been attacked with hammers by unknown mobs during tuition fee protests in London.
The members of the group said the attackers must have been connected with the police as they were also hitting students without officers caring to interrupt them.
The members of the group said the attackers must have been connected with the police as they were also hitting students without officers caring to interrupt them.
A team of Presstv news production staff has been attacked with hammers by unknown mobs during tuition fee protests in London.
The attack on the team of Presstv reporter Hassan Ghani had their work disrupted as their cameraman Adam Apostol was knocked to the ground suffering hammer injuries to his waist and hands. He was rushed to the hospital after the attack.
Meanwhile a technical engineer with the group sustained hammer injuries to his knee in the assault.
The members of the group said the attackers must have been connected with the police as they were also hitting students without officers caring to interrupt them.
The British police have a record of dealing roughly with journalists, which includes an attack on freelance photographer David Hoffman during G20 protests in April 2009.
Earlier this month the Metropolitan Police was forced to pay Hoffman £30,000 in compensation in an out-of-the-court settlement and apologize to him for the "unprovoked" assault with a shield that left him with five broken teeth.
The force also acknowledged that the attack prevented Hoffman from covering the event freely in his professional capacity as is apparently the case with the Hassan Ghani's group.
The attack on the team of Presstv reporter Hassan Ghani had their work disrupted as their cameraman Adam Apostol was knocked to the ground suffering hammer injuries to his waist and hands. He was rushed to the hospital after the attack.
Meanwhile a technical engineer with the group sustained hammer injuries to his knee in the assault.
The members of the group said the attackers must have been connected with the police as they were also hitting students without officers caring to interrupt them.
The British police have a record of dealing roughly with journalists, which includes an attack on freelance photographer David Hoffman during G20 protests in April 2009.
Earlier this month the Metropolitan Police was forced to pay Hoffman £30,000 in compensation in an out-of-the-court settlement and apologize to him for the "unprovoked" assault with a shield that left him with five broken teeth.
The force also acknowledged that the attack prevented Hoffman from covering the event freely in his professional capacity as is apparently the case with the Hassan Ghani's group.
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Life gets stranger everyday!
11.12.2010 13:38
Klamber
did you get any pictures?
11.12.2010 13:51
where were you when you were attacked?
what time was it?
have you got any photos or footage of the people with the hammers?
what kind of hammers? long handles or short? made of wood/ metal/ plastic? were they inflatable?!
did you see where they went afterwards?
did you talk to any of the demonstrators who were also attacked by them?
you're a media group? and you can't even write a decent (or particularly believable) news story about something you've experienced?
wondering
yeah, i'm no fan of Iranian state propaganda, but...
11.12.2010 15:00
s
oh dear
11.12.2010 15:20
have you given one second's thought as to why they are supportive or what their agenda is?
they are NOT on our side.
alibi
undercover cops with large bags
11.12.2010 16:54
look at the two undercover cops helping the injured cop at 1m 06s
guy on the right has a large backpack on. guy on left is clearly wired up.
given undercover would have warrant cards so be able to slip in and out of cordons easily, what would they need a large backpack for? what's in it? what were they up to?
forensic
press pictures are used to grass people up
12.12.2010 03:24
As the saying goes: snitches get stitches.
anon
who do they think they are
12.12.2010 22:03
really
Don't hit me, but there are other possibilities
13.12.2010 11:09
Now, not that I always believe what reporters say, or that they are never mistaken over what they say they have seen, but there have been several reports over the course of the student demos of there being some scraps between people on the demo.
None of this means they were cops.
fyi