United Kingdom - Snowden journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is outraged that US journalist Glen Greenwald's Brazilian partner David Miranda was detained and questioned for nine hours yesterday at London's Heathrow airport under the UK's Terrorism Act, and that his mobile phone, laptop and other computer equipment were all seized. Greenwald is the Guardian journalist who has played a leading role in analysing and publishing US whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA's electronic surveillance programmes. “The (...)

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