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'Threat to investigative journalism'
'Threat to investigative journalism'
Last Modified: 19 May 2008
By:
Nina Teggarty
Seventeen leading journalists and civil liberties groups warn against "a serious threat to the future of investigative journalism". More4 News reports.
"This legal action poses a serious threat to the future of investigative journalism".
That's the warning from seventeen leading journalists and civil liberties groups, in a letter to The Times.
What's worrying them is the attempt by Greater Manchester police to seize notebooks from a journalist who's been working with a former Islamist extremist now under arrest.
Nina Teggarty reports.
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