{"id":286847,"date":"2016-12-22T22:51:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/scottish-activist-planning-to-sue-trump-golf-course-for-filming-her-urinating\/"},"modified":"2016-12-22T22:51:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:51:57","slug":"scottish-activist-planning-to-sue-trump-golf-course-for-filming-her-urinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/scottish-activist-planning-to-sue-trump-golf-course-for-filming-her-urinating\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish activist planning to sue Trump golf course for \u2018filming her urinating\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Edinburgh court will decide on Thursday whether an environmental activist can sue Donald Trump\u2019s golf resort in Scotland for breach of privacy after she was allegedly filmed without consent urinating behind a dune on the course.<\/p>\n

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Trump International Golf Course Scotland, which is wholly owned by the US president-elect, is expected to fiercely contest the action, according to the Guardian.<\/p>\n

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A lawyer acting for Rohan Beyts, a long-time critic of the environmental and community impact of the resort, has accused Trump\u2019s staff of breaching the Data Protection Act for filming her.<\/p>\n

Beyts and a friend had used a public footpath across the Trump course to reach the sand dunes and beach that border the golf links. As they returned from their walk, Beyts says she was challenged by resort staff and then photographed by a local newspaper photographer.<\/p>\n

Three days later, she was formally charged with public annoyance. Beyts says she was told by police that two members of Trump\u2019s staff and a guest on the course had filmed her on their mobile phones.<\/p>\n

Her prosecution has raised fresh concerns among local activists that Trump\u2019s staff deliberately target his critics and monitor their movements on the resort.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time Trump\u2019s golf course has made the news this week. On Wednesday, it was revealed that the US president-elect spent many years trying to persuade the Scottish government to halt its plans to build wind farms because he was worried they would spoil the views from his Aberdeen course.<\/p>\n

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The proposed 11-turbine wind farm, to be built off the northern coast, would have a detrimental effect on Scotland\u2019s landscape, according to Trump, who wrote a series of colorful letters to then First Minister Alex Salmond.<\/p>\n

Trump claimed the \u201cmonstrous\u201d<\/em> turbines and \u201cinsanity\u201d<\/em> of the scheme would bankrupt Scotland. He went on to say Salmond would be known as \u201cMad Alex – the man who destroyed Scotland\u201d<\/em> if he went ahead with the plan.<\/p>\n

He warned that Scotland\u2019s economy would become a \u201cthird world wasteland\u201d<\/em> as a result of its commitment to renewable wind power, only to vow weeks later to act as the Scottish government\u2019s \u201cgreatest cheerleader\u201d<\/em> if it performed a U-turn on the deal.<\/p>\n

Trump, with whom Salmond was friendly before the wind farm falling-out, also said the \u201ccraziness\u201d of the plan would damage the Scottish leader\u2019s hope for independence.<\/p>\n

The letters, obtained by the Huffington Post, show Trump wrote to Salmond asking why the Swedish energy firm Vattenfall was being allowed to \u201cruin\u201d<\/em> the Scottish coastline, saying: \u201cLet them ruin the coastline of Sweden first.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He went on to say: \u201cPlease understand that I am doing this to save Scotland and honor my mother, Mary MacLeod who, as you know, was born and raised in Stornoway. She would not believe what you are doing to her beloved Scotland!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n