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British journalist could face years in prison for refusing to hand over his passwords to the police (www.ilfattoquotidiano.it)

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It is an unprecedented case. And it risks triggering an unprecedented threat to journalism. The UK police have repeatedly tried to obtain the passwords to the phones of the British independent journalist, Richard Medhurst, the first reporter arrested in London under Section 12: his analyses and comments on Israel’s bloodbath in Gaza – which Amnesty International has characterised as genocide – have been interpreted by the police as support for organisations banned from the UK, such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

The British journalists’ union, the NUJ, and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) publicly condemned his arrest and the use of anti-terrorism laws against journalists “simply for carrying out their work”.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lmao, all that yapping because you contradicted yourself within the same breath. Or are you gonna sperg out about how comments don't involve breathing now? My use of the quote tool is fine, don't blow a blood vessel because you look like a fool in your last comment.

Ofc there are unjust laws, usually enforced by people Medhurst cheers for. In this case I'm sure many human rights lawyers are incensed about this UK law, but usually the course correction for laws like this is a bad material consequences and a subsequent rewrite. So unless you have examples of sympathetic victims of this law I don't care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a shame you can't engage in good faith; you might have learned something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can't even admit a blatant contradiction, you don't get to talk about good faith. Also wtf would I learn from you? How to avoid making autists scream and shit their pants with the quote tool?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Anything else? You done? Get it allll out.