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

submitted 5 days ago by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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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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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is this a case of the government shutting down a press because of something it printed or did it just get Dixie Chicks'd?

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Not really a Dixie Chicks case, as that was mostly a sort of cancelling by the public at large.

This cartoonist quit over a cartoon in which she depicted rich people and corporations (like Mickey Mouse aka Disney) offering money and worship to a Trump statue. It was shut down, likely by directions the WaPo got from Bezos, same reason he killed the Harris endorsement and started meeting Trump.

In other words, the government didn't shut it down. Fear for a Trump-led government did. Which honestly I'm not sure is better or even worse. Trump doesn't have to censor shit, the corporate-owned "free" press will apparently self-censor to avoid his wrath in the first place.

[–] Scirocco@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

*she

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Telnaes

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

Whups, my bad. Normally I'm careful enough to use they if I don't remember but I slipped up I suppose.

I've corrected it, thanks!

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Welp, all I can say is the first three rounds of the class war have been fired, and they found their target.