1. Every person shall have the right to appeal in court against the decisions and actions of state and municipal institutions and agencies as well as officials should they violate or unlawfully restrict a person’s right to obtain, collect or disseminate information. 2. It shall be prohibited to persecute a producer or disseminator of public information, their participant or a journalist for the information published if there has been no violation of law in the course of production and dissemination thereof. Article 12. Accreditation of Journalists 1. A producer and/or disseminator of public information shall have the right to accredit their journalists with state institutions, political parties, political organisations and associations as well as with other institutions by agreement between the parties. 2. A journalist may take part in the meetings and other events of the institution or organisation he has been accredited with; he shall be provided with verbatim reports, minutes and other documents or copies thereof subject to conditions established by mutual agreement. 3. Foreign journalists accredited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania shall have the same rights to collect and publish information as Lithuanian journalists. CHAPTER III PROTECTION OF PERSONAL, PUBLIC AND STATE INTERESTS IN THE FIELD OF PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC Article 13. Protection of a Person’s Rights, Honour and Dignity 1. To avoid violation of a person’s rights and to protect his honour and dignity, in collecting and publishing information, it shall be prohibited: 1) to film, photograph, make audio and video recordings without a person’s consent within the residential premises of the natural person, the private domain of the natural person and a fenced or otherwise clearly marked territory belonging thereto, regardless of whether that person is present in the aforementioned places; 2) to film, photograph or make audio and video recordings during non-public events without the consent of organisers who have the right to hold such events; 3) to film and photograph a person and use his images for advertising purposes in the media without the consent of that person; 4) to film and photograph a person with evident physical handicaps without that person’s consent or to film and photograph a person in a helpless state due to a health impairment; 5) to film or photograph a child or to make audio and video recordings of him without the consent of at least one of the parents, guardians or custodians and the child himself. It shall be prohibited to use photographs, audio or video recordings of children in the information of erotic, pornographic and violent nature;