Swedish Documentary
In 1994 the Norwegian television station TV2's TV documentary series Dokument2 showed a Swedish documentary, En Folkefiende - sälfångstinspektören som tvingades i exil (en. An Enemy of the People - the Sealing Inspector Who was Forced into Exile) that strongly criticized Norway's treatment of Lindberg and accused Norway of allowing libel charges to stop an important debate. Then the editorial office for Document2 was also sued for libel. A group of seal hunters reacted to the fact that the program showed pictures of them while they were hunting seals. The pictures were taken by sealing inspector Lindberg, who claimed that these pictures documented illegal hunting methods. A court had earlier ruled in favor of the seal hunters that the images constituted libel and forbidden the showing of the images. Dokument2's editor Gerard Helskog argued that the public had a right to know what happened on the hunting grounds, and won completely in Bergen City Court. The ruling marked an expansion of freedom of speech in Norway.
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