Nordic dailies blast move against paper
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The editors of four top Nordic dailies yesterday wrote to UK Prime Minister David Cameron to protest his government’s treatment of The Guardian newspaper over its publication of US security secrets.
The editors said they were “deeply concerned that a stout defender of democracy and free debate like Britain refers (to) anti-terror legislation in order to legalize what amounts to harassment.
“The implication of these acts may have ramifications far beyond the borders of Britain, undermining the position of the free press throughout the world,” wrote the editors of Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter, Denmark’s Politiken, Norway’s Aftenposten and Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat.
The letter was also published in The Guardian’s sister Sunday title, the Observer.
“An assault on one newspaper easily becomes an assault on several newspapers and by extension everyone’s freedom of speech,” Dagens Nyheter editor Peter Wolodarski told the Stockholm daily.
British counter-terror police on Thursday launched a criminal probe into documents seized from David Miranda, the Brazilian partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who worked with former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden to break stories on electronic surveillance by the US National Security Agency.
Miranda was detained for nine hours at Heathrow Airport on August 18 by police using anti-terror laws, and had his laptop, phone and other electronic equipment seized.
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