United States - Jeffrey Sterling latest victim of the US' war on whistleblowers

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is deeply concerned by the precedent set in the United States' government's case against a former C.I.A. operative convicted of allegedly divulging classified information to New York Times reporter James Risen. Jeffrey Sterling is now in jail for merely talking to a journalist regularly. He was sentenced based only on circumstantial evidence. On June 16, 2015 Jeffrey Sterling self-surrendered to the Englewood Federal Correctional Institution in Colorado, (...)

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