Portugal - Lisbon website editor arrested over cyber-attack coverage

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to learn that Portuguese journalist Rui Cruz is being held in connection with his coverage of hacking. The Judicial Police arrested him and six other people yesterday in an investigation into recent cyber-attacks. Cruz is the founder and editor of TugaLeaks, a news and information website based at his home in the Lisbon suburb of Pinhal Novo, where the police arrested him after conducting a search. Exactly what he is alleged to have done is not known. (...)

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