(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has voiced relief at the news that Eike Korfhage and Henning Wallerius, two German students who went St. Petersburg to cover the Group of Eight summit for a German university radio station, Hertz 97.8, were freed on the afternoon of 15 July 2006 although the authorities had ordered them held […]
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has voiced relief at the news that Eike Korfhage and Henning Wallerius, two German students who went St. Petersburg to cover the Group of Eight summit for a German university radio station, Hertz 97.8, were freed on the afternoon of 15 July 2006 although the authorities had ordered them held for 10 days.
After being detained on the night of 9 July as anti-G8 protests were taking place in St. Petersburg, Korfhage and Wallerius were accused by the police of urinating in public.
