Won’t be silenced by detention, says Snowden reporter
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The American journalist who has written stories based on leaked documents from former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said yesterday he would not be silenced by what he described as police harassment of his partner, who was detained for nine hours as he passed through Heathrow Airport.
London police detained David Miranda, the partner of reporter Glenn Greenwald, under anti-terror legislation at the London airport on Sunday. Miranda arrived yesterday in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives with Greenwald.
Greenwald promised that he was going “to write much more aggressively than before” about government snooping.
“I’m going to publish many more things about England, as well,” he said. “I have many documents about the system of espionage of England, and now my focus will be there, too. I think they’ll regret what they’ve done.”
Miranda told reporters in Rio that he was not threatened while he was detained at Heathrow, but confirmed that personal objects were taken from him.
“I stayed in a room, there were six different agents, entering and leaving, who spoke with me,” he said. “They asked questions about my whole life, about everything. They took my computer, video game, cellphone, memory thumb drives, everything.”
ABritish lawmaker called for police to explain why Miranda had been detained and why it took nearly nine hours to question him. “What needs to happen pretty rapidly is we need to establish the full facts,” Keith Vaz, chairman of Parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee, told the BBC.
“Now you have a complaint from Mr. Greenwald and the Brazilian government — they indeed have said they are concerned at the use of terrorism legislation for something that does not appear to relate to terrorism. So it needs to be clarified, and clarified quickly.”
Vaz said it was “extraordinary” that police knew that Miranda was Greenwald’s partner and that the authorities were targeting partners of people involved in Snowden’s disclosures.
Greenwald has written about NSA surveillance programs based on files disclosed by Snowden, who now has temporary asylum in Russia.
Miranda, 28, was stopped while traveling home to Brazil after visiting Germany, where he met with Laura Poitras, a US filmmaker who has worked with Greenwald on the NSA story.
The Guardian newspaper reported it paid for Miranda’s flights. “As Glenn Greenwald’s partner, he often assists him in his work,” the newspaper said in statement. “We would normally reimburse the expenses of someone aiding a reporter in such circumstances.”
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