United States - Barrett Brown case: 11 of 12 counts dismissed

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders greets with relief federal prosecutors' decision to drop nearly all criminal charges against Barrett Brown, a contributor to The Guardian and Vanity Fair. Most importantly from an information freedom perspective, prosecutors based in Dallas, Tex., dismissed accusations of aggravated identity theft. Brown was indicted on 12 September 2012. The charges arose from his publication of a link to a site that had made public several thousand emails exchanged by staff (...)

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