Photographer capturing migrant camp fined €1,000 under Spain’s ‘gag law’

Javier Bauluz fined 18 months after confrontation with police while documenting conditions in Canary Islands

A Pulitzer prize-winning photographer in Spain has been fined nearly 1,000 under the country's gag law" for an incident in which police blocked his attempts to take pictures of refugees.

Javier Bauluz said he received news of the 960 fine this week, more than a year after a confrontation with police while he was documenting the arrival of thousands of migrants and refugees in the Canary Islands. At the time, police warned Bauluz he would be fined for disrespecting an agent" and refusing to identify himself", despite the photographer's insistence that he had handed over his identification.