In a recent letter to Mendelblit, Oshrat Maimon of the Ir Amim advocacy organization quoted from the 2003 guidelines barring the “participation of media figures (reporters, radio or TV writers, media photographers etc.) in search, reenactment or investigation activities.”
“Jerusalem District” included dozens of searches, and despite the use of blurring techniques individuals and their homes could often be identified by acquaintances.
“This production,” Maimon wrote, “incl...read more
In a recent letter to Mendelblit, Oshrat Maimon of the Ir Amim advocacy organization quoted from the 2003 guidelines barring the “participation of media figures (reporters, radio or TV writers, media photographers etc.) in search, reenactment or investigation activities.”
“Jerusalem District” included dozens of searches, and despite the use of blurring techniques individuals and their homes could often be identified by acquaintances.
“This production,” Maimon wrote, “included filming individuals, their stuff, often under pressure, revealing searches in their homes, rooms, rifling through their closets, their drawers. ... Filming including identifiable details and exposed personal conversations with officers, often during distressing and wide exposure of their mental state. Beyond the grave violation of the legal rights of many, this production even endangered the lives of some subjects,” she wrote.
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