Tolga Akmen, an accredited journalist, had been at the eveny to photograph Liz Truss’s keynote speech.
The photographer told the PA news agency afterwards: “There was no need for manhandling. We could have talked about it. I didn’t try to get in where I wasn’t allowed to.“I happen to be someone who argued back, and they don’t kindly to that. We should have access and are accredited media. I showed them my press card.“I have never had anything like this happen in my life. Weird behaviour, really strange.
Akmen said he and colleagues then walked towards another entrance before he heard a security guard radioing his description, saying he had been acting “aggressively and needed to be stopped”. The award-winning photographer said he had been briefed by Conservative Party press officers regarding where media were allowed access during the conference in Birmingham.In it, a man tells Akmen he was being “aggressive”.
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