Thursday, September 20, 2012

So Western democracies do ban the press sometimes?

"Prince William and wife Catherine headed home from Tuvalu Wednesday after securing a ban on a French magazine distributing topless pictures of her and launching a criminal probe into how they were obtained.  French authorities on Tuesday banned Closer magazine from any further distribution of the paparazzi pictures of Prince William’s wife Catherine sunbathing topless in the south of France earlier this month.  An injunction granted by a court at Nanterre in the Paris suburbs ordered the magazine to hand over all forms of the pictures to the British royal couple within 24 hours or face a 10,000-euro ($13,000) fine for every day’s delay…"