UN: press should not be 'intimidated into silence' over state secrets [1]
The Guardian - 9/04/13, Josh Halliday and Ewen MacAskill
David Miranda (right) the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greewald (left) was detained by the UK government under shedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. Photograph: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
Two senior UN representatives have warned the British government that the protection of state secrets must not be used as an excuse to "intimidate the press into silence" following the detention of David Miranda [2] under the Terrorism Act.
Frank La Rue, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, issued the caution as he called for a public debate on the mass surveillance revelations exposed by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden [3].
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